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| Whose sexual arousal do we understand better, men’s or women’s? Why |
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Men's--its easier to see and measure.
Also, we are not that complicated. lol |
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| What biological factors influence difficulties in sexual arousal? |
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Definition
| Aging-->Hormone levels; Drugs (ciggs/alcohol/ weed); physiologic problems (injury/disease); |
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| What psychological factors are most likely to influence women’s difficulties with sexuality (in relationships, cultural values, parental attitudes)? |
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Definition
| Mental scrips (objects of desire); Beliefs & attitudes of sexuality; quality of interpersonal relationships; parents attitudes and demonstration of affection; Cultures-repressive or permissive?; Previous traumatic experiences; perfomrance anxiety; existence of bad communication, power conflicts, lack of intimacy, and distrust. |
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| What is performance anxiety? |
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Definition
| Fear of failure, (can also happen during sex) |
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| What kinds of negative emotions are associated with sexual difficulties? |
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Definition
| Anxiety, guilt, failure to communicate. |
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| What are the major components of the sexual dysfunction treatment pioneered by Masters and Johnson? |
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Definition
| Become more familiar w/ their bodie; learn to communicate more effectively w/ partners; receive training procedures to diminish fear. |
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| What sexual disorder are medications most effective for? |
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Definition
| ED(for men)-drop in blood pressure; loss of sexual desire (for women only)-facial hair growth & other masculine features. |
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| Fetishism (what are the most commonly fetishized objects?) |
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Definition
| Women's underwear, shoes & boots, leather or rubber products. |
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Term
| Transvestic fetishism (differentiate between this and being a drag queen) |
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Definition
| One who dresses in the opposite gender's clothes for sexual arousal vs. Drag queen who does NOT necessarily do so for sexual arousal. |
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| Sexual masochism (who is most likely to be a masochist?) |
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Definition
| Sexual arousal by receiving pain or humiliation.Highly educated and occupationally successful people. Mostly among privileged groups of society. |
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Definition
| one who finds it sexually arousing to humiliate or cause pain to another. Sometimes escalates. |
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Term
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Definition
| Scenario-Old man wearing a huge brown overcoat. LOOK/STAY AWAY! |
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| Voyeurism (what is important about the person being observed?) |
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Definition
| Peeping on UNKNOWING victims who are disrobing/engaging in sex. |
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Definition
Scenario- Crowded bus/train in India/Japan.
DO NOT WANT. |
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| Pedophilia (differentiate between this and child molestor) |
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Pedo-One who finds young people sexually desirable.
Child Molestor- one who acts on pedobear instincts. |
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Term
| What is the prevalence of rape? |
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Definition
| 14% of adult women in the US |
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Term
| What is acquaintance rape? (more common form of rape) |
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Definition
| Rapes committed by people who know their victims |
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Term
What motivates people to rape?
Contrast the DSM and feminist perspectives
What are the four categories of rapists? |
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Definition
| Sadistic(agressive), Nonsadistic(nonagressive), Vindictive(nonsexual anger towards women) Opportunistic (impulsive behavior/psychopathology) |
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Term
| Why should we be skeptical about findings that some people with paraphilias have elevated testosterone levels? |
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Definition
| Participants of studies are convicted sex offenders; high rate of alcoholism and drug abuse among men convicted of sex crimes. |
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| What are the four main developmental factors associated with the development of paraphilias? |
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Definition
| EARLY crossing of normative sexual boundaries through DIRECT experience (sexual abuse by adult); Lack of consistent parental enviorn in which normative sex behaviors & values are modeled.; Lack of self esteem; Ignorance/poor understanding of human sexuality. |
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Term
| Understand the concept of lovemap and what goes wrong with this in paraphilias |
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Definition
| Child learns that romantic attachment & sexual desire are incompatible. |
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| What is an intriguing hypothesis about the etiology of masochism? |
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Definition
| Those who engaged had experienced traumatic physical disease followed by frightening forms of medical treatment. Pain-to-pleasure. Strong positive emotion-sexual pleasure- used to control intolerable pain. |
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| What should we understand about people’s motivation for treatment when they have a paraphilia? |
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Definition
| Most do not enter voluntarily, but are forced (or superficially persuaded) due to criminal offenses (and pardons). |
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Term
| Aversion therapy (what is it?) |
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Definition
| Think back to the video of the butt-toucher...*SMACK* |
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Term
| Cognitive behavioral therapy (what is it and what do we know about the outcomes?) |
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Definition
| Cognitive restructuring, social skills training, and stress management procedures. Better success than aversion, but still bad success rate. |
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Term
| Hormones and medications-in regards to treating paraphilia (which ones are used and what do we know about outcome?) |
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Definition
| montly injections to reduce testosterone; Some positive reports, yet no double blind placebo controlled studies. |
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Term
| What are the two types of laws used to control people who have committed sexual crimes? |
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Definition
Community notification laws (megans law)- unconstitutional via prolonged punishment after sentence is served?
Sexual predator laws- keep some criminals in custody indefinitely. Unconstitutional? |
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Term
| Gender Identity Disorder Etiology? |
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Definition
| Much unknown, since we know very little about gender ID. mostly believed to be caused by hormonal imbalances during prenatal period. |
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Term
| What are the findings on monogamous relationships? |
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Definition
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Term
| Alfred Kinsey: What was important about the results of his research? |
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Definition
| He made sex a more acceptable area of study, as well as showed how much sexual activity/preferences actually varies. |
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Term
| What are the findings on gender differences in terms of orgasm? |
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Definition
Women 3 stages, hardly any refractory period
Men 2 stages, long refractory period |
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Term
| What are the components of sexual satisfaction? |
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Definition
| Physiological measurements; Emotional/cognitive. |
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Term
| For sexual dysfunctions, whose distress is important? |
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Definition
| primarily the one suffering, although partners is usually indirectly taken into account as well. (their displeasure prompts your displeasure) |
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