Chapter 11 Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder
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- vaginismus
- involuntary contractions of the muscles around the outer third of the vagina, preventing entry of the penis
- psychological causes of desire dysfunctions
- anxiety, anger, attitudes, fears, or memories, afraid of losing control and pregnancy, psych disorders
- sexual arousal disorder
- female- inability to acheive sexual excitement including adequate lubrication or swelling during sex
- transvestic fetishism
- fantasies about dressings in clothes of the opposite sex
- biological causes of excitement dysfunction
- vascular problems, damage to nervous system, meds, alcohol,
- voyeurism
- urges to observe people as they undress or have sex
- therapy for male orgasmic disorder
- training, drugs, etc.
- orgasm phase
- sexual pleasure peaks and sexual tension is released as muscles in the pelvic region contract rhythmically
- fetishism
- recurrent intense sexual urges to non-living object
- biological causes of orgasm dysfunction
- diseases, diabetes, postmenopausal changes, drugs, meds
- sexual masochism
- repeated urges that involve being humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer
- psychological causes of excitement dysfunction
- performance anxiety
- sexual dysfunctions
- inability to function normally in some part of the human sexual response cycle
- paraphilia
- disorder with recurrent and intense sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors involving something inappropriate
- male orgasmic disorder
- inability to reach orgasm or long delays in reaching orgasm after normal sexual excitement
- excitement phase
- changes in pelvic region, physical arousal, increase in heart rate, muscle tension, BP, and breathing
- erectile disorder
- failure to attain or maintain arousal furing sexual activity
- pedophilia
- fantasies about sex with children
- female orgasmic disorder
- woman rarely has an orgasm or repeatedly experiences a very delayed one
- psychological causes
- trauama or memories of bad relationships, unhappy childhood, loss of a parent,
- frotteurism
- fantasies about touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person
- premature ejaculation
- reaches orgasm before, on, or shortly after penetration or before wishes to
- dyspareunia
- sexual pain in the genitals during sexual activity
- sociocultural causes of desire dysfunctions
- sociocultural pressures (divorce, etc.), may need space, lose interest, etc., cultural standards
- sexual sadism
- repeated urges to inflict suffering on others
- desire phase
- the phase of the sexual response cycle consisting of an urge to have sex, sexual fantasies, and attraction to others
- techniques for hypoactive sexual desire and sexual aversion
- affectual awareness (discover anxiety feelings), self-instruction (change negative reactions)
- sociocultural causes of excitement dysfunction
- bad relationship patterns, stress
- therapy for erectile disorde
- reduce pressure to perform, tease technique, viagra or other drugs
- sex therapy 8 features
- assessment of the problem, mutual responsibility, education, attitude change, elimination of performance anxiety, increasing sexual communication, changing destructive lifestyles, addressing physical and medical factors
- gender identity disorder
- feels uncomfortable about assigned sex and strongly wishes to be a member of the opposite sex
- biological causes of desire dysfunction
- high level of prolactin, low level of testosterone, either high or low level of estrogen, alcohol, illness
- hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- disorder marked by a lack of interest in sex and hence a low level of sexual activity
- sexual aversion disorder
- aversion to and avoidance of genital sexual interplay
- sociocultural causes
- public messages, sexually restrictive history, lack of emotional involvement
- exhibitionism
- persons are aroused by exposing their genitals to another