PSY 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Erectile Dysfunction, Sexual Dysfunction
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Chapter 10: sexual dysfunctions, paraphilic disorders, and gender. Three stages of sexual response are associate with specific sexual dysfunctions: desire, arousal, orgasm, must be perceived as distressing. Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder & female sexual interest/ Arousal disorder: persistent or recurrent absence of sexual thoughts or desires for sexual activity: disturbance causes marked distress or interpersonal problems, duration: 6 months, most prominent in females. Sexual aversion disorder: avoidance of all genital or sexual contact with partner: fear, panic, or disgust to physical and sexual contact or thoughts, more females than males. Disorder (frigidity): inability to achieve/maintain an erection/lubrication- swelling response: more in older men. Delayed ejaculation or infrequency or absence of ejaculation/female. Orgasmic disorder: inability to orgasm and feeling distress over the problem. Premature ejaculation: most frequent male sexual dysfunction: difficult to define premature (possibly 1-2 minutes, perceived lack of control over orgasm rather than actual time, tends to decline with age.
