PSYC 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Human Sexual Response Cycle, Sexual Dysfunction
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Human sexuality: 41% of women & 51% of men have a sexual problem in 1 year, most sexual problem is low sexual interest. Factors of distress of sexual dysfunction: stress, pressure/discrepancy, distress is common in younger people, lack of identifiable reason for dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction in women: sexual desire, arousal & interest. Female orgasmic disorder: 1 of 2??, anorgasmia: absence, delay, or infrequency of orgasm, reduced intensity of orgasm, 1/3 don"t consistently experience orgasms, sexual pain. Persistent sexual arousal syndrome (psas: physical signs of sexual arousal in the absence of deliberate attempt to invoke arousal, can be relieved briefly by orgasm but symptoms return 15-60min later, arousal is distressing, intrusive & unwanted. Sexual dysfunction in men: sexual desire, arousal & interest. Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder: deficient or absent sexual fantasies & desires. Delayed ejaculation: prevalence: 1, absence, delay, or infrequency of orgasm, mostly secondary, hardest to treat.
