FRHD*2100 Final Exam Flashcards
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
What do those with female sexual interest/arousal disorder or male hypoactive sexual desire disorder often report?
No sexual thoughts or fantasies
Female sexual interest/arousal disorder
Involves a lack of interest in sex and typically insufficient lubrication
Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder
Involves a lack of interest in sex
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
Reaching orgasm too quickly
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
Generalized sexual dysfunctions
Occurs in all situations
Situational sexual dysfunctions
Only affects sexual functioning in some situations
What is the most common form of sex therapy and what does it often draw on?
Cognitive behavioural and it often draws on mindfulness
Acquired sexual dysfunctions
Follow periods of unproblematic functioning
Vasocongestion
Erection in the male and vaginal lubrication in the female
Every kind of sexual problem increases with age except for what?
Premature ejaculation
What does the PLISSIT sex therapy approach stand for?
Permission, limited information, specific suggestions, intensive therapy
What is the least common sexual problem for males?
Sexual pain
What is the most common male sexual dysfunction (other than erectile dysfunction in elderly men)?
Premature ejaculations
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
Involves sexual arousal in response to atypical stimuli
Paraphilic disorder
A paraphilia that becomes problematic to the individual or may cause harm to others
What sexuality and gender reports greater rough sex frequency and enjoyment?
Bisexual women
Are paraphilias more common among men or women?
Men
What paraphilia is the most common among women?
Sexual masochism
Sado-masochism (S&M)
A sexual interaction involving power exchange between consenting partners
What is the lovemap perspective?
A theory that states that every person has a lovemap formed in the brain during childhood that contains the image of an idea lover and types of stimuli and activities that are sexually arousing to that person
Systematic desensitization
Attempts to break the link between the sexual stimulus and the inappropriate response
Aversion therapy
The undesirable sexual behavior is repeatedly paired with an aversive stimulus
Covert sensitization
A variation of aversion therapy where paraphilic fantasies are paired with an aversive stimulus in the client’s imagination
Social-skills training
Focuses on helping the individual improve their ability to relate to the other gender
Orgasmic reconditioning
Aims to increase sexual arousal to socially appropriate sexual stimuli
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
Bill C-36
Makes the selling of sexual services legal, but makes the buying of sex illegal
Who are the two most educated types of sex workers?
Call girls and then escorts
Men who engage in sex work are sometimes called _______ and their clients are typically called ________
Hustlers; scores
Kept boys
Male sex workers who have a relationship with older, wealthy men who give them a wealthy lifestyle
Punks
Prison inmates who are used sexually by other inmates in return for protection or goods
What are John schools?
They are day-long schools for men who have been charged with buying or attempting to buy sex, and they listen to presentations from sex workers about the sex trade’s negative effects on them, learn about the risks, and in return their charges are erased from the official court record
What has the high risk for STIs among sex workers been linked to?
The criminalization of sex work
Conservative position on pornography
States that sexually explicit material is a threat to the traditional values of society
Liberal position on pornography
States that if sexually explicit material doesn’t harm others or the community then the government shouldn’t restrict access to it
Anti-pornography feminist approach to pornography
States that sexually explicit material promotes gender inequality and sexual violence against women
Pro-pornography feminist approach to pornography
States that sexually explicit material can promote gender equality
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
