Chapter 14 sexual disorders
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- acquaintance (date) rape
- forcible sex when the people involved know each other, sometimes occuring on a date
- child sexual abuse
- sexual contact with a minor
- dyspaneunia
- painful or difficult sexual intercourse, the pain or difficulty is usually caused by infection or a physical injury such as torn ligaments in pelvic region
- ego dystonic homosexuality
- according to DSM III a disorder of people who are persistently disatisfied with teir homosexuality and wist instead to be attrated to members of the opposite sex
- exhibitionism
- marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by exposing one's genitals to an unwilling observer
- fear of performance
- being overly concerned with one's behavior during sexual contact with another, postulated by Masters and Johnson as a major factor in sexual dysfunction
- female orgasmic disorder
- a recurrent and persistant delay or absence of orgasm in a woman during sexual activity adequate in focus, intensity, and duration; in many instances the woman may experience considerable sexual excitement
- female sexual arousal disorder
- formerly called frigidity, the inability of a female to reach or maintain the lubrication swelling stage of sexual excitement or to enjoy a subjective sense of pleasure/excitement during sexual activity
- fetishism
- reliance on an inanimate object for sexual arousal
- forced rape
- legal term for rape, forced sexual intercourse or other sexual activity with another person
- satutory rape
- sexual intercourse between an adult male and someone who is under the age of consent
- gender identity
- disorder in whcih there is a deeply felt incongruence between anatomic sex and the sensed gender, transsexualism and gender identity disorder of childhood are examples
- homophobia
- fear or aversion to homosexuality
- homosexuality
- sexual desire or activity directed toward a member of one's one sex
- hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- absence of or deficiency in sexual fantasies and urges
- incest
- sexual relations between close relatives, most often between father and daughter, or brother and sister
- male erectile disorder
- a recurrent and persistent inability to attain or maintian an erection until completion of sexual activity
- male orgasmic disorder
- see inhibited male orgasm- recurrent and persistent delay or absence of ejaculation after adequate phase of sexual excitement
- orgasmic reorientation
- a behavior therapy tech for altering classes of stimuli to which people are sexually attracted; indvs are confronted by a conventionally arousing stimulus while experiencing orgasm
- pedophiles
- person with a marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification through contract with youngsters defined legally as underage paraphillia
- premature ejaculation
- inability of the male to inhibit his orgasm long enough for mutually satisfying sexual relations
- sensate focus
- a term applied to exercises prescribed at the beginning of the Masters and Johnson sex therapy program; partners are instructed to fondle each other to give pleasure but to refrain from intercourse thus reducing anxiety about sexual performance
- sensory awareness procedures
- techs that help clients tune into their feelings and sensations as in senate focus exercises and to be open to new ways of experiencing and feeling
- sex reassignment surgery
- an operation removing existing genitalia of a transexual and constructing a substitute for genitals of opp sex
- sexual gender identity disorders
- DSM IV TR disorders compromising the paraphilia, sexual dysfunctions, and gender identity disorders
- sexual aversion disorder
- avoidance of nearly all genital contact with other people
- sexual dysfunctions
- dysfunctions where the appetite or psychophysiological changes of the noraml sexual response cycle are inhibited
- sexual masochism
- a marked preference for obtaining or increased sexual gratification through subjection to pain or humilation
- sexual sadism
- a marke dpreference for obtaining or increasing sexual gratification bu inflicting pain or humilation on another person
- sexual value system
- as applied by Masters and Johnson, the activities that an indiv holds to be acceptable and necessary in a sexual relationship
- spectator role
- as applied by Masters and Johnson, pattern of behavior in which the indiv's focus on and concern with sexual performance impedes his or her natural sexual responses
- transsexualism
- a person who believes he/she is oppsite in sex to his/her biological endowment; sex reassignment surgery is frequently desired
- transvestic fetishism
- the practice of dressing in clothing of oppp. sex for purpose of sexual arousal
- vaginismus
- painful spasmodic contractions of outer 3rd of the vaginal barrel which makes insertion of penis impossible of extremely difficult
- voyeurism
- marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by watching others in a state of undress or having sexual relations