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normal sexual behavior:
2-3 years
4-7
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2-3: masturbation begins
4-7: sex play begins w/ siblings/friends close in age; inspection/rubbing of genitals; curiosity about opposite sex
5-7: enact heterosexual marriage scripts
8-9: homo-SOCIALITY; sexes don't intermingle as much, but romantic interest may exist; asks ?'s
10-11: interest in bodily changes; self-conscious about body; same sex play at this time |
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| physical changes (puberty) |
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| 8-14 years old- 2 years earlier in girls; triggered by release of gonadotropins, pituitary hormones that stimulate activity in the gonads (testes/ovaries) |
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| secondary sex characteristics |
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| physical characteristics other than genitals; ie: hair, breast development, growth spurt, voice changes |
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| moving through a succession of sexually exclusive relationships |
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| unmarried couple living in same household in a committed relationship; for of cohabitation |
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| Gottman's research on marital satisfaction |
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| ratio of positive to negative comments predicts satisfaction- five positive to one negative is key |
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| sexual interaction outside of a couple relationship, whether the couple are married, living together, or identify themselves as a couple |
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| marriage in which spouses, w/ each other's permission, have intimate relationships w/ other people as well as with the marital partner |
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| multiple consensual sex relationships of trios, groups of couples, and intentionally created families that emphasize emotional commitment |
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| "beyond usual or typical love"; behaviors not usually based on an affectionate/loving relationship but rater expressions of behavior in which sexual arousal/response depends on unusual activity; not expressed by most people in society, ie atypical sexual behaviors |
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| John Money on paraphilias |
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| atypical behavior more prevalent among males bc male erotosexual differentiation (dev of sex arousal in response to various images/stimuli) is more complex and subject to more errors than that of the female; |
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| involve participation w/ another vs solo activity |
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| sex behavior where an individual becomes aroused by focusing on an inanimate object or part of the human body- focus on exclusion of everything else; can be substitute for human contact; ie shoes, stockings, leather; incorporating the object/body part through fantasy, where reinforcement of orgasm strengthens the association; can come from childhood |
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| symbolic transformation (in regards to fetishism) |
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| object of the fetish becomes endowed w/ power or essense of its ownder, so the child responds to this object as he might the actual person |
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| person derives arousal from wearing clothing of opposite sex; the cross-dressing is a momentary activity producing sexual excitement that culminates thru masturbation or sex w/ partner; many times aroused w/ wearing only one garment, like a bra- so strong element of fetishism, but difference is the clothing is actually worn, not just viewed; HETEROsexual males |
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| the association of sexual expression w/ pain; but one who engages in one of these behaviors doesn't necessarily engage in the other; distinct behaviors |
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| act of obtaining sexual arousal through giving physical or psychological pain |
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| the act of obtaining sexual arousal through RECEIVING physical/psychological pain; aroused by being whipped, cut, pierced, bound etc.; its not any pain that will arouse the person, but specifically pain associated w/ a staged encounter whose express purpose is sexual gratification; an attempt to escape from high levels of self-awareness |
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| person derives sex pleasure from being bound, tied up, or otherwise restricted |
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| enhancement of sexual excitement and orgasm by pressure-induced oxygen deprivation; alone or w/ partner; mainly white males; may bear some relationship to reports that orgasm is intensified by inhaling amyl nitrate, a drug used to treat heart pain that reduces brain oxygenation thru dilation of the arteries that supply blood to the brain; as many as 1000 deaths per year |
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| unusual varian of sex expression where individual obtains pleasure from receiving enemas; less commonly, w/ giving enemas; historically w/ people who were frequently given enemas as children |
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| person obtains sexual arousal from contact w/ feces; achieve high levels of excitement from watching someone defecate or by defecating on someone or by someone defacating on them |
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| obtain sexual arousal from contact w/ urine; "water sports" or "golden showers"; no consesus about the origin |
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| aka indecent exposure; behavior in which individual exposes his genitals to an involuntary observor; obtains gratification by masturbating shortly after, using mental images of the observer's reaction to increase his arousal; normally location he can easily escape; men in 20's-30's; shy, nonassertive people who feel inadequate and insecure and suffer from problems w/ intimacy; sex rel's likely to have been unsatisfactory; its a limited attempt to somehow involve others in their sexual expression; a few feel anger toward people, particularly women, who have failed to notice them or have caused them emotional pain |
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| sometimes called telephone scatologia; subtype of exhibitionism; often suffer from pervasive feelings of inadequacy/insecurity; best response is not to react overtly |
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| deriving sexual pleasure from looking at the naked bodies or sexual activities of others, usually strangers, w/out their consent; to qualify as atypical sexual behavior, voyeurism must be preferred to sexual relations w/ others or indulged in w/ some risk; "peeping tom"; normally have poorly developed sociosexual skills, w/ strong feelings of inferiority/inadequacy, particularly as directed toward potential sexual partners; norm young men early 20's |
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| obtain sexual pleasure by pressing/rubbing against a fully clothed female in a crowded public place, like bus or subway; norm man's clothed penis against woman's clothed buttocks/legs; "toucherism"= he may use hands to touch a woman's thighs, breasts inadvertently; norm feelings of social and sexual inadequacy |
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| aka bestiality; sexual contact bw humans and animals; frequency highest among males raised on farms; commonly only a transitory experience of young people to whom human partner is inaccessible/forbidden; TRUE, or nontransitory zoophilia exists when sexual contact w/ animals is preferred, regardless of other forms that are available |
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| rare sexual variation in which person obtains gratification by viewing/having intercourse w/ a corpse; men who manifest severe emotional disorders ; may see themselves as sexually and socially inept and may both hate and fear women |
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| people can become dominated by insatiable sexual needs; nymphomania for women and satyriasis or don juanism for men |
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| a state of physical, emotional, mental, and sexual well-being related to sexuality |
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| generalized type vs situational type (in regards to sexual difficulties) |
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| a problem a person can experience in all situations w/ all partners vs only in specific situations or w/ specific partners |
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| to be considered a sexual disorder... |
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| a difficulty must occur in the context of adequate physical and psychological sexual stimulation |
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| hypoactive sexual desire disorder |
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| absense/minimal experience of sexual thoughts and interest PRIOR to sexual activity as well as a lack of sexual desire DURING the experience; desire difficulties are most common sexual difficulty experienced by women |
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| discrepancies in their preferences for freqency, type, and timing of sexual activities; a couple's incompatibility in terms of these preferences can contribute to sexual dissatisfaction |
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| a fear of sex and a compelling desire to avoid sexual situations; can range from feelings of discomfort, repulsion, and disgust to an extreme irrational fear of sexual activity; symptoms such as sweating, increased heart rate, nausea, dizziness, diarrhea, etc. |
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| excitement phase difficulties |
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| when physiological arousal, erotic sensation, or subjective feeling of being turned on is chronically diminished or absent; lack of vaginal lubrication for women and inability to maintain/achieve erection for men |
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| female genital sexual arousal disorder |
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| vaginal lubrication is a women's first physiological response to sexual arousal; the persistent inability to attain or maintain the lubrication- swelling response |
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| female subjective sexual arousal disorder |
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| when physical signs of arousal are present but feelings of sexual excitement and pleasure are absent or markedly diminished |
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| combined genital and subjective sexual arousal disorder |
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| combination of both disorders |
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| persistent sexual arousal disorder |
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| spontaneous, intrusive and unwanted genital arousal- tingling, throbbing, pulsating-in the absence of sexual interest; one or more orgasms do not relieve the uncomfortable feelings of arousal and the arousal can persist for hours or days; first id'd in 2001; using or stopping use of SSRI antidepressants has been related to developing PSAD; some women also have problems w/ restless leg syndrome and overactive bladder sydrome; pelvic varicose veins in women associated w/ PSAD |
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| consistent/recurrent inability over at least 3 mos. to have or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual activity; 1 in 5 men >20 years; increases w/ age- man in 50's 2x's more likely to have than man in 20's; some procedures record erection patterns during sleep; instruments to measure penile blood pressure and flow to determine whether difficulties are caused by vascular problems--if no erection occurs following injection, then vascular impairment is likely |
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| absense, delay, or diminished intensity of orgasm, despite high subjective arousal from any type of stimulation; 'situational'- orgasmic when masturbating but not when stimulated by partner; many times experiencing orgasm is a learned thing |
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| female orgasm during intercourse |
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| women who enjoy intercourse and experience orgasm in some way other than during coitus do not have sexual problems; many more women experience orgasm from masturbation, manual stimulation, and oral sex than during coitus |
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| aka retarded ejaculation; inability of a man to ejaculate during sexual activity w/ a partner; 8% of men |
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| difficulty w/ orgasm only during intercourse |
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| difficulty w/ orgasm by partner manual and oral stimulation |
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| most common male sexual difficulty; pattern of quick ejaculations (<1min) combined w/ a man's inability to delay ejaculation during vaginal penetration and w/ distress about or avoidance of sexual intimacy bc of his rapid orgasm; men w/ PE underest. the intensity of their physical arousal, experience rapid high arousal to penile stimulation, ejaculate before reaching full arousal, adn report less enjoyment of orgasm than men who don't have problems w/ rapid ejaculation |
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| medical term for painful intercourse; more common for women; often caused by inadequate arousal and lubrication- insufficient hormones can decrease lubrication; yeast and bacterial infections can cause inflammations; ruptured hymen; smegma collection; endometriosis; gynecological surgeries (uterine/ovarian cancer); sti's |
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| a small area at the entrance of the vagina that causes severe pain |
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| unusual; if foreskin of uncircumcised penis is too tight; inadequate hygiene; smegma collection; infections of urethra, bladder prostate, etc can induce burning, itching during or after ejaculation; peyronie's disease |
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| fibrous tissue and calcium deposits develop in the space above and between the cavernous bodies of the penis; results in pain and curvature of the penis upon erection that can interfere w/ erection and intercourse; usually caused by traumatic bending of penis during intercourse or by medical procedures involving the urethra |
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| strong involuntary contractions of the muscles in the outer third of the vagina; make attempts to insert a penis into the vagina extremely uncomfortable/painful for a woman; its a conditioned, involuntary response; also occurs during pelvic exam; sexual coercion often contributes (marrying w/out consent); some who experience this are sexually responsive and orgasmic w/ manual/oral stimulation, but others are unable to experience desire and arousal |
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| factors affecting sexual difficulties |
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| physiological; cultural; individual; relational |
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chronic illnesses effecting sexual functions
(physiological factors) |
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| diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, strokes |
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medication effects on sexual functioning
(physiological factors) |
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| >200 prescription/nonprescription drugs; psychiatric meds (antidepressants (ssri's), valium, xanax); antihypertensive meds (high blood pressure); |
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| disabilities (relating to sexual disfunction) |
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| spinal cord injuries; cerebral palsy; blindness and deafness |
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| process of touching and communication used to enhance sexual pleasure and to reduce performance pressure; partners take turns touching each other following essential guidelines |
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stop-start technique
(for longer lasting strategies for delaying ejaculation) |
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| stimulating the penis to the point of impending orgasm and then stopping until the preejaculatory sensations subside |
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| sexual intercourse that occurs w/out consent as a result of actual or threatened force that overcomes the resistance of victim; lack of empathy for feelings of victim |
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| "roofies"; brand name for flunitrazepam; tranquilizer w/ sedative effect that can last for several hours; muscle relaxation and mild amnesia; was odorless but now they've changed the color and stuff so its not so sketch; excreted from system in a short time, so hard to use that as evidence |
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| gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
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| central nervous system depressant; lethal when mixed w/ alcohol; odorless and tasteless; exits body 6-13 hours |
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| special k; central nervous system depressant |
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| unwelcome sexual advances; requests for sexual favors,a nd other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace or academic setting |
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| compliance w/ unwanted sexual advances is made a condition for securing a job or education benefits or for favorable treatment in employment or academic settings; harassment often evident in reprisals that follow refusals to comply |
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| hostile or offensive environment |
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| less clear but prob more common than quid pro quo; one or more supervisors/coworkers/students engage in persistent, inappropriate behaviors that make the workplace or academic env hostile, abusive, and generally unbearable; doesn't necessarily involve power or authority differences, but may involve attempts to defend status and position bc men often view the entrance of women into formerly male bastions of power and privilege as threatening |
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| the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of children for the purpose of exploitation |
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