sexual behaviors Flashcards
Popular Themes
Group sex (89%), sadomasochism (60% giving pain and 65% receiving pain), and desires for novelty, adventure, and variety.
Bondage and Discipline:
Prevalence:
65% of university students have sexual fantasies of being tied up and 62% have fantasies of tying someone up.
BDSM Munch
An infocinal gathering of people who are interested in BDSM, often at a restaurant, so they can eat, socialize, and meet other people with similar interests
Four Clusters of Sadomasochism:
Hypermasculinity (eg., dildo, enema), administering and receiving pain, physical restriction, and humiliation
Strictly Spanking Party’s
Bimonthly parties for those who like to be spanked, and spankings are the main activity.
Lovemap Theories
During childhood we develop a template for sexual relationships. Disruptions of these templates → paraphilias.
Psychological Masochism Theory
Motivated by a desire to escape from self-awareness. Helps escape from being conscious of the self.
Satyriasis:
Hypersexuality in men
Most Common Unconventional Behaviours
Compulsive masturbation (67%), protracted promiscuity (56%), and dependence on pornography (41%).
Most Common Paraphilias:
Exhibitionism (35%), voyeurism (27%), and pedophilia (25%).
Paraphilic Hypersexuality:
1/3 experience extremely high frequencies of maladaptive behaviours and various additional paraphilic interests (fetishes, voyeurism, etc.).
Avoidant Masturbation
Men who spend a great deal of time viewing pornography and several hours per day masturbating
Chronic Adultery:
Those who chronically cheat on spouses. Men in this category report a desire for daily sex and that sex with their wives is infrequent or does not occur, due to dyspareunia, very low libido, or past sexual abuse.
Sexual Guilt:
Sexual activity is within the normal range but they feel extremely guilty about it. Often self-referrals, and more likely to be women than persons in the first three groups.
Designated Patient:
Those referred to by romantic partner, the partner has very restrictive beliefs about sex and discovers some activity by the patient that they disapprove of. The patient shows no signs of behavioural extremes/paraphilic disorder.
Non-Sexual Comorbidity
Most common being personality disorders, hypomania, or developmental delays. Sometimes symptoms are related to medications.
Online Sexual Behaviour:
Three Categories:
Non-arousal OSA:
Solitary-Arousal OSA:
Partnered-Arousal OSA
Non-arousal OSA:
Looking for sex information, looking for advice about sexual relationships, joining an online dating service: and joining an online kink community.
Solitary-Arousal OSA:
Examples include viewing sexually explicit pictures or videos; watching others engaged in sex on a webcam; and posting a video of yourself engaging in sex.
Partnered-Arousal OSA
Having an avatar engage in sexual activity with another avatar, participating in an online sexual chat for sexual arousal; using an electronic sex toy that is controlled through the Internet by someone else; and engaging in sexual acts by yourself that someone on IM was telling you to do for a webcam (cybersex
Asphyxiophilia
Desire to induce oxygen deficiency for arousal, often through strangulation (rope, pillow, plastic bag).
Saliromania
Mainly in men; desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes or the image of a woman, such as a painting or statue.
Coprophilia & Urophilia
Excretion based; coprophilia (feces) and urophilia (urine). To be urinated on known as “golden showers” or “water sports.”
Sexsomnia
Also known as sleep sex, refers to involuntary sexual behaviors during nonrapid eye movement sleep, often occurring in the first few hours.
