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Are sexual problems more common in women or men?
Women
Sexual dysfunction
A persistent or recurring lack of sexual desire or difficulty becoming sexually aroused or reaching orgasm
Sexual aversion disorder
Feeling repelled by genital contact
Female sexual interest/arousal disorder or male hypoactive sexual desire disorder
Often report an absence of sexual thoughts or fantasies
Erectile disorder
Persistent difficulty in achieving or maintaining an erection sufficient to allow the completion of sexual activity
What are some common causes of erectile disorder?
Diabetes, alcohol, smoking, and performance anxiety
What are some treatments for erectile disorder?
Sensate focus, surgery, medication, pumps
Sensate focus
Stimulate penis to arousal but not ejaculation repeatedly so that erection loss is not feared
Male orgasmic disorder
Delayed orgasm
Premature ejaculation
Early or rapid ejaculation - too quickly to permit they or their partners to fully enjoy sexual relations
What is premature ejaculation treated with?
Squeeze technique or stop-start technique
Anorgasmia
Never experiencing orgasm
Female orgasmic disorder
Difficulty reaching orgasm with adequate sexual stimulation
Dyspareunia
Genital pain that happens just before, during, or after sex
Vaginismus
Involuntary muscle spasms, fear of pain
Vulvodynia
Intense vulvar pain, burning, irritation, or soreness
What is the most common form of sex therapy and what does it often draw on?
Cognitive behavioural and it often draws on mindfulness
What does the PLISSIT sex therapy approach stand for?
Permission, limited information, specific suggestions, intensive therapy
Masters and Johnson sex therapy approach
Behavioral change is the focus, give daily sexual homework assignments like sensate focus exercises
Atypical sexual behavior
Consensual sexual behaviours that are not statistically typical
Paraphilia
Persistent and recurrent sexual interests, urges, fantasies, or behaviors involving objects, activities, or situations that are atypical
What sexuality and gender reports greater rough sex frequency and enjoyment?
Bisexual women
What does BDSM stand for?
Bondage Domination Sadism and Masochism
Sadism
Physical harm inflicted on victim
BDSM
Often involves discipline, humiliation, role playing, and bondage
Masochism
Urge to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer
Autoerotic asphyxia
Strangulation and masturbation
When would S&M become a paraphilia?
If the urges are recurring, intense, distressful, and interfere with life
Fetishism
Sexual attraction, urges, behaviors associated with objects
Media fetish
When the material out of which the object is made is the source of arousal (ex. leather)
Form fetish
Object and its shape is important (eg. shoe)
Partialism
Fetish with a body part
Coercive paraphilias
Involve non-consenting others and victimization
What paraphilias fall under coercive paraphilias?
Zoophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, frotteurism, necrophilia, telephone scatologia
Zoophilia
Sexual activity with animals
Voyeurism
Recurring and intense sexual urges related to secretly observing another person who is naked, undressing, or engaging in sexual activity
Exhibitionism
Recurring and intense urge to display genitals to an unsuspecting stranger
Frotteurism
Recurrent and intense urges to rub against a nonconsenting person
Necrophilia
Sexual activity with a corpse
Telephone scatologia
Obscene phone calls
Sex work
The exchange of sexual services for money
Can massage parlors in Toronto legally advertise sexual services?
No
Sexual health
A state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality
Information-motivation-behavioural skills model
States that for sexual health education to be effective, it must provide information that is directly relevant to sexual health, address motivational factors that influence sexual health behaviour, and teach behavioural skills that are needed to protect and enhance sexual health
Abstinence-only programs
Seek to motivate teens to not become sexually active until they are older or until they are married
Do abstinence-only programs work?
No, the students who took them were no more likely to be abstinent or have less sexual partners
Broadly based sexual health education
Goes beyond the topics of the biology of sex and pregnancy and STIs to address things like satisfying relationships and sexual orientation
What was early twentieth-century sex education referred to as in Ontario?
Nature study or purity education
