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Sexuality Final
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/27/2012

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Term
paraphilia
Definition
attraction to inanimate objects
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(2) criteria for sexual disorder
Definition
1. fantasies, urges or behaviors have occurred over a period of at least 6 months

2. cause clinical distress and impairment in life
Term
fetishism
Definition
use of nonliving objects to produce arousal

incapable of having an orgasm or becoming fully aroused unless the object is present

occurs over a period of over 6 months
Term
media fetish
Definition
aroused by certain materials

ex: leather and silk
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form fetish
Definition
-objects and shapes are important

ex: high heels, lingerie, stockings
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why do people become fetishists: learning theory
Definition
classical conditioning, learned association built between fetish object and orgasm/arousal
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why do people become fetishists: cognitive psychology
Definition
-perception of arousal is distorted
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4 steps of sexual addiction model
Definition
1. preoccupation: the person can think of nothing other than the sexual act to which he or she is addicted

2. Rituals: the person enacts certain rituals that have become a prelude to the addictive act

3. Compulsive Sex Behavior: sexual behavior is enacted and the person feels that he or she had no control over it

4. Despair: Rather than feeling good after the sexual act is completed, the addict falls into a feeling of hopelessness and despair
Term
transvestitism
Definition
-dressing as a member of the other gender

-cross-dressing
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Drag queens
Definition
men that dress up as women
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female impersonators
Definition
-men who dress up as women, often as part of their jobs as entertainers

-profit
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transvestic fetish
Definition
-heterosexual man who dresses in female clothing to produce sexual arousal
Term
sexual sadist
Definition
sexual excitement from causing pain to others
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voyeur
Definition
peeping tom
Term
scoptophilia
Definition
sexual pleasure from observing sexual acts and the genitals
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satyriasis
Definition
nymphomania that occurs in men
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hypersexuality
Definition
-compulsive sexual activity that may not always lead to orgasm
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frotteurism
Definition
compulsion to rub or touch one's genitals against the body of a nonconsenting individual

usually in a crowded place

the target may be unaware that it has happened
Term
troilism
Definition
-three people having sex together
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saliromania
Definition
a desire to damage or soul a woman or her fclothes or the image of a woman
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coprophilia/urophilia
Definition
-excretion on other people
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steps to develop sexually without getting "variance"
Definition
1. gender identity

2. sexual responsiveness: arousal to appropriate stimuli

3. formation of relationships with others
Term
causes of rape
Definition
1.victim precipitated rape: victim is "Asking for it"

2. rapists are mentally disturbed

3. sex = power

4. social disorganization
Term
comparing characteristics of rapists vs regular men
Definition
1. they believe that women are sexual objects; women are deceptive and dangerous;

2. more likely to have had brain injuries as a child

3. characterized by poor inhibition and self-regulation

4. lack empathy.

5. experienced environental triggers, such as being in a war
Term
dyspareunia
Definition
painful intercourse
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vaginismus
Definition
spastic contraction of the outer third vagina

vaginal entrance may close,
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