Chapter 3 Flashcards
__________ _________ is inextricably linked to sexual activities, sexual feelings, sexual interactions, sexual pleasure, and sexual intimacy
Sexual anatomy
Our reasons for engaging in sexual behavior are far more varied and complicated because psychology processes play a role at least as great or greater than biology
T or f
True
Our physical patterns of sexual response are much more similar than they are different
T or f
True
EPOR model
Masters and Johnson’s approach to explaining the process of sexual response, encompassing four arbitrarily divided phases
Excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution
Excitement phase
First phase
The first physical changes of sexual arousal occur
Ex: kissing, touching, fantasy
Plateau phase
Second phase
Sexual arousal levels off (reaches a plateau) and remains at an elevated level of excitement
What two phases are seen as accounting for a unified event that might be called sexual arousal ?
Excitement
Plateau
Aphrodisiac
Mythical substances that are thought to enhance sexual arousal and desire
Vasocongestion
The swelling of erectile tissues due to increase blood flow during sexual arousal
In excitement phase
Sex flush
A darkening or reddening of the skin of the chest area that occurs in some people during sexual arousal
Arousal (excitement and plateau) steps
Vasocongestion
Sex flush
Erection of penis and clitoris (vaginal lubrication)
Arousal goes up as excitement slows down
Tenting
Tenting
A widening of the inner two-thirds of the vagina during sexual arousal
Orgasm
Climax of sexual arousal
The most intensely pleasurable experience of sexual responding
Vary in character and intensity
Women and orgasms?
Time required?
Cause by?
Women tend to require a longer period of stimulation than men do to achieve
Orgasm is the result of direct or indirect stimulation of the clitoris or clitoral area
Women can have additional orgasms
Multiple orgasms
More than one orgasm at relatively short intervals as sexual stimulation continues without a resolution phase or refractory period in between orgasms
Women can, men can’t
________ __________ is a sexual break of sorts, when men are unable to have another orgasm regardless of the stimulation they receive
Refractory period
Emission
In males: the buildup of sperm and armen in the urethral bulb just prior to being expelled through the urethra
Men and orgasms
Ejaculation stages?
Loss of control over some voluntary muscles
Pelvic contractions
Ejaculation: emission and expulsion
Ejaculatory inevitability
“Point of no return”
In males the sensation produced during the emission phase of ejaculation that expulsion of semen is imminent, reflexive, and cannot he stopped
Expulsion
Males: the contraction of pelvic muscles that force semen through the urethra and out of the body through the penis
Factors influencing the intensity and duration of orgasms?
4
Length of arousal prior to orgasm
Length of time since the previous orgasm
Alcohol or drug use
Feelings of comfort and intimacy with a partner
G-spot
Women: an area of tissue on the anterior (upper) wall of the vagina that when stimulated, may cause a woman to experience enhanced sexual arousal and more intense orgasms
Health benefits of orgasm?
8
General health Longer life Pain relief Greater feelings of intimacy Lower cancer rate (men) Less heart disease Mood enhancement Better sleep
Skene’s glands
Female: a pair of glands on either side of the urethra that in some women may produce a fluid that is expelled during orgasm
The equal of men ejaculation
Resolution phase
Fourth and last phase
Sexual structures return to their unaroused state
Detumescene
Orgasm phase
Third phase
Sexual excitement and pleasure reach a climax
Masters and Johnson’s EPOR model complications?
Neglect emotional and psychological components (desire)
Far too androcentric : relies heavily on a one-size fits all male sexual response pattern
Fails to acknowledge differences in female sexuality
Masters and Johnson’s claims that men ejaculate, have a refractory period, and have multiple orgasms but women do not have been found that they do not apply to all men and all women
T or f
True
Kaplan’s three stage model
An alternative to masters and Johnson’s EPOR model that features the stages of desire, excitement, and orgasm
Hypoactive sexual desire
A persistently low level of desire for sexual activity, or lack of sexual fantasies
Aka: inhibited sexual desire
Erotic stimulus pathway theory
A model of sexual response based on the psychological and cognitive stages of seduction, sensation,surrender and reflection
Reed’s model
Reed’s erotic model focus was placed on the cognitive and psychological rather than on the physical
T or f
True
Dual control model of sexual response
A theory that sexual arousal is controlled by a combination of excitatory and inhibitory processes
New view of women’s sexual problems
A model of female sexual response incorporating a larger variety of factors than previous models, including physical, cognitive, social, and relationships issues
Many people mistakenly equate sex with sexual intercourse
T or f
True
New view of women’s sexual problems seeks to redefine the sexual responses of women as fundamentally distinct from those of men and argues that a single model is inadequate to explain both
T or f
True
