Chapter 9 - Sexual and Gender Disorders Flashcards
What qualifies “unusual” sexual preferences as a disorder?
They must be recurrent, persistent, distressing and/or involve non-consenting parties.
Studies done by _______ and ______ are largely responsible for our current understanding of the sexual response cycle.
Masters and Johnson
The DSM-5 divides psycho-sexual disorders into three general categories. What are they?
Sexual dysfunctions, paraphilic disorders and gender dysphoria.
What are the four phases of the sexual response cycle?
The excitement phase, plateau phase, the orgasmic phase and the resolution phase.
______ _______ involve disturbances in the sexual response cycle or painful intercourse.
sexual dysfunctions
______ disorders involve intense interest or preference for unusual targets of sexual arousal.
Paraphilic
______ ______ involves a strong and persistent sense of incongruence between ones assigned gender and gender identity
Gender dysphoria
_______ Occurs in the excitement phase of sexual arousal when there is increased blood flow to the genitals.
Vasocongestion
The ______ period occurs in men during the resolution phase of the sexual cycle.
refractory
Masters and Johnson consider ____ ____ to be one of the leading causes of sexual dysfunction, a theory which recent research has upheld.
Performance anxiety
Around ____% of females report problems with sexual arousal.
20%
_______ is the male equivalent of female sexual interest/arousal disorder and accounts for about 2% of the male population.
Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Erectile disorder increases with age but on average, about ___% of men experience this.
10%
____ ____ is a therapeutic technique where couples progresses through three phases of non-demand pleasuring.
Sensate focus
The _____ technique is a method for treating premature ejaculation.
squeeze
