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Topic: Human Sexual Response

	Sexual Biology
		Instead of being responses to a message sent by the brain along the nerve pathways, these changes and many others are responses to messages delivered in a kind of code by chemicals known as hormones.
		They are responsible for the bursts of energy produced during emergencies for rapid growth infancy, a slower rate of growth during childhood and the final explosion of growth during adolescence.
		Hormones are produced and released in response to instructions from the brain, by various organs and tissues but the chief producers are the endocrine glands.
	www.fractology.org /biology.htm (395 words)

	Human Sexuality - MSN Encarta
		It is not unusual for some new couples to have sexual intercourse almost every day, but in general, among married or cohabiting couples, the frequency of sexual intercourse tends to decline the longer the two people are together.
		Understanding the processes and underlying mechanisms of sexual arousal and orgasm is important to help people become more familiar with their bodies and their sexual responses and to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions.
		The excitement stage of sexual arousal is characterized by increased blood flow to blood vessels (vasocongestion), which causes tissues to swell.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580700_3/Human_Sexuality.html (1072 words)

	Human Sexuality - MSN Encarta
		Sexually transmitted diseases should be diagnosed and treated by qualified medical practitioners, and all sexual partners must be treated in order to avoid reinfection.
		These dysfunctions may be caused by physical problems such as fatigue or illness; the use of prescription medications, other drugs, or alcohol; or psychological factors, including learned inhibition of sexual response, anxiety, interfering thoughts, spectatoring (observing and judging one's own sexual performance), lack of communication between partners, insufficient or ineffective sexual stimulation, and relationship conflicts.
		The most noted scientific studies of sexuality in the 20th century are those of American biologist Alfred Charles Kinsey and his colleagues and those of William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580700_4/Human_Sexuality.html (1250 words)

	Human Sexuality
		Human sexual behavior is different from the sexual behavior of other animals, in that, it seems to be governed by a variety and interplay of different factors.
		Humans are not sexually active just for the sake of reproduction, rather, there are a variety of complex factors that lead people to have sex.
		Human Sexual Response (1966) by William Masters and Virginia Johnson is one of the seminal studies examining the sexual behavior of humans via the observation method.
	www.csun.edu /~vcpsy00h/students/sexual.htm (2524 words)

	Sexual/Gender Disorders
		A sexual dysfunction is a disorder marked by a persistent inability to function normally in some area of the human sexual response cycle.
		Sexual dysfunctions are distressing, and often lead to sexual frustrations, guilt, loss of self-esteem, and interpersonal problems.
		Disorders of sexual pain are also a common sexual dysfunction, but these dysfunctions do not fit into a specific phase of the sexual response cycle.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /abnormal/sexual_gender_disorders.htm (321 words)

	What Can Animal Models Tell Us About Human Sexual Response? Annual Review of Sex Research - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In all species, sexual behavior is directed by a complex interplay between steroid hormone actions in the brain that give rise to sexual arousability and experience with sexual reward that gives rise to expectations of competent sexual activity, including sexual arousal, desire, and performance.
		Although the study of animal sexual behavior by neuroendocrinologists has traditionally been concerned with mechanisms of copulatory responding, more recent use of conditioning and preference paradigms, and a focus on environmental circumstances and experience, has revealed behaviors and processes that resemble human sexual responses.
		There is no human counterpart to lordosis (at least not as an unambiguous, estrogen-dependent postural display of sexual receptivity in females), and human sexual behavior is so shaped by experience and learning that it seems to defy hormone actions that are critical to the display of animal sexual behavior.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3778/is_200301/ai_n9205397 (942 words)

	ARN Continuing Education Information
		Vasocongestion is the congestion of blood vessels and the primary physiological response to sexual stimulation.
		During the excitement phase of the male sexual response cycle, vasocongestion causes rapid erection of the penis, along with thickening of the scrotal skin and elevation of the scrotal sac (Woods).
		Sexual dysfunction, one complication of dialysis that is particularly disturbing to male patients, is affected by a multitude of factors.
	www.rehabnurse.org /ce/010299/sex.htm (4963 words)

	another viewpoint: a new view of women's sexual problems
		The report noted: "A growing body of knowledge indicates that problems in human sexuality are more pervasive and more important to the well-being and health of individuals in many cultures than has previously been recognized." The report emphasized the importance of taking a positive approach to human sexuality and the enhancement of relationships.
		Sexual inhibition due to fear of sexual acts or of their possible consequences, e.g., pain during intercourse, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, loss of partner, loss of reputation.
		This document is designed for researchers desiring to investigate women's sexual problems, for educators teaching about women and sexuality, for medical and non-medical clinicians planning to help women with their sexual lives, and for a public that needs a framework for understanding a rapidly changing and centrally important area of life.
	www.seekwellness.com /womensexuality/new_view.htm (2261 words)

	Regression Strategies for Analyzing the Study and Pharmacological Treatment of Sexual Response: ANOVA and Beyond Annual ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The empirical study of human sexuality is multidisciplinary, drawing from disciplines such as biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and medicine.
		Because sexual inadequacy is often the focus of therapeutic interventions, the medical community has also assumed a role in the investigation of sexual response.
		Specifically, as with many behavioral responses resulting from a complex interplay of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors, recent approaches to the understanding of human sexual response have emphasized the value of the biopsychosocial model.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3778/is_200301/ai_n9208640 (883 words)

	Human sexuality 2/10/97
		Orgasm is described by Kinsey as "the explosive discharge of muscular tensions at the peak of the sexual response...
		We generally believe that the sexual experience in other mammals is similar to man, but the lack of ability to demonstrate the presence of orgasm in other animals makes it impossible to study all aspects of sexual behavior in other animals.
		In humans, castration - or removal of the testes- has been used as punishment or as a consequence of triumph in war where the victors enslave a population and castrated the males.
	www.umich.edu /~psycours/531/becker.chapter5.htm (1115 words)

	Human sexual response cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vasocongestion is also responsible for the darkening of the clitoris and the walls of the vagina during sexual arousal.
		The plateau phase is the period of sexual excitement prior to orgasm.
		Orgasm is the conclusion of the plateau phase in a release of sexual tension.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_sexual_response_cycle (1298 words)

	The Sexual History
		During times of sexual activity, women without serious sexual inhibitions rarely reject and almost always encourage direct and indirect sexual stimulation of themselves by an accepted partner and readily stimulate the accepted partner by many of the means at their disposal.
		In response to questions about a woman's satisfaction with her own sexuality or her partner's satisfaction, she may indicate that the word frigid has been used to describe her sexual responses and attitudes.
		Her typical response to the approach of an examining finger is to pull her knees together, lift her hips, slide to the upper end of the examining table, and cry out in alarm.
	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /books/bv.fcgi?rid=cm.chapter.6036 (10729 words)

	Sexual Dysfunction in Women
		Sexual dysfunction is a problem that can affect women of any age at any time.
		It is at this time of life that women describe a pattern of sexual response that is perceived as a problem by the woman and/or her sexual partner.
		If there are medical conditions that are the cause of sexual dysfunction, your physician can work with you to develop a treatment plan that specifically addresses any underlying issues, thus resolving any biological problems that may be contributing to sexual dysfunction.
	www.womenshealthcaretopics.com /sexual_dysfuncton.htm (1111 words)

	The Psychopharmacology of Sex,Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Understanding these issues will assist clinicians in determining whether sexual dysfunction is due to a disease or to a drug, which will allow rational management of sexual disorders by targeting the specific dysfunctional phase of the sexual response with a drug that has an appropriate and compensatory neuropharmacologic mechanism of action.
		provided a simplified formulation of the neuropharmacology of normal human sexual response: the initial phase is libido, or desire, linked to satisfaction with sex; the second phase is arousal of genital tissues, resulting in erections in men and genital lubrication and swelling in women; and the final phase is orgasm, accompanied by ejaculation in men.
		Some of the most commonly used drugs and their effects on specific phases of the sexual response are indicated in Figure 3.
	www.psychiatrist.com /pcc/brainstorm/bs6203.htm (317 words)

	Other
		Human sexual response represents an opportunity for the integration of biologic aspects of sexuality with our thoughts, feelings, and interpersonal relationships.
		The physical sexual response is one of vasocongestion and myotonia.
		A belief that the human sexes have a distinctive make-up that determines their respective lives, usually involving the idea that one sex is superior and has the right to rule the other.
	classes.kumc.edu /son/nrsg835/other.htm (520 words)

	Eddy Elmer: Sexual dysfunction and aging
		Sexual dysfunction as defined by DSM-IV: "A disturbance in the processes that characterize the sexual response cycle or by pain associated with sexual intercourse" (p.
		The sexual response cycle (to be discussed shortly) is influenced by numerous factors that are part of the more general phenomenon of "sexuality".
		A female's sexual arousal dysfunction is generally less troubling for her, than a male's arousal dysfunction is for him.
	www.eddyelmer.com /articles/sxdsfu.htm (2664 words)

	All Natural Male Enhancement (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The complexity of sexual behaviors in humans is a product of our high intelligence and complex societies, rather than being governed by instinct as in most other animals.
		Human sexuality has aspects relating health, pleasure and social interactions such as legal and religious taboos.
		Understanding the processes and underlying mechanisms of human sexuality reagrding arousal and orgasm is important to help people become more familiar with their bodies and their sexual responses and to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions.
	www.maxerectxx.com /Human-Sexuality.html (1268 words)

	How The Brain Organizes the Sexual Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The human sexuality is closely related to reproductive behavior in terms of propagation and the survival of the species as well their neural and physiological mechanisms.
		Sexual activity depletes the organism's energy stores; the sex drive is satiated only when fatigue and exaustion override it and it recurs when the body has replenished its energy stores.
		In addition, what is considered "normal" and "abnormal" in human sexual behavior is highly variable across cultures and times; and, as such, it has changed considerably in the Western societies in the last, permissive decades.
	www.cerebromente.org.br /n03/mente/sexo_i.htm (577 words)

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		In its simplest form the sexual template consists of physiological urges generally emanating in the limbic system or paleocortex which includes the amygadala, the hypocampus and hypothalamus which control sexual desire and mating behavior and causes humans to want to have sex either with others or by themselves through masturbation.
		Knowing that the fantasies residing in the sexual template are the key to starting the sexual response cycle seems to be a simple solution to resolving the sexual dysfunctions of the couple.
		We can classify sexual activities but we cannot apply value judgments to these sexual activities as this is really determined by the society in which the activity takes place and secondly, by the individual, or the individuals, involved in the sexual activities.
	www.sexologist.org /info/sexualtemplate.doc (2731 words)

	L.V.R.I. --Sex101
		The female sexual response cycle is unimpeded by a required refractory period that prevents successive orgasms in the male.
		Principal understanding of the physiology of the human sexual response emanates from observational research studies by William H. Masters, M.D. and Virginia E. Johnson.
		A model of women's sexual response has been proposed, which reflects the key roles of emotional intimacy and sexual stimuli, and is depicted in Figure 1 alongside the traditional model of Masters, Johnson, and Kaplan.
	www.lvri-ny.com /sex101.html (503 words)

	sexual disorders (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sexual dysfunctions: disruption of the sexual response cycle or pain during intercourse
		The judgment of deficiency or absence is made by the clinician, taking into account the factors that affect sexual functioning, such as age and the context of the person’s life.
		The sexual dysfunction is not better accounted for by another Axis I disorder (except another sexual dysfunction) and is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition.
	www.unc.edu /~corychen/webpage.lecture.notes.sexual.disorders.html (126 words)

	Discovery Health :: Sexual Response
		Sexual response refers to the set of physiological and emotional changes that lead to and follow orgasm.
		Helen Singer Kaplan proposed the Triphasic Concept of human sexual response involving three stages: desire, excitement, and orgasm.
		William Masters and Virginia Johnson, prominent sex researchers and therapists, suggested that there are four identifiable phases in the sex response cycle: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
	health.discovery.com /centers/sex/sexpedia/sexresponse.html (384 words)

	Chapter Ten: Sexual Motivation and Behavior
		Sexual motivation operates on the incentive model described earlier.
		Yes, with the spaced aged technology of the artificial penile device with a camera, we are able to bring you a detailed description of the four phases of the human sexual response.
		Occurs when sexual arousal reaches its peak intensity and is discharged in a series of muscular contractions that pulsate through the pelvic area.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~cslem/wizdemo/10-ChapterC.html (543 words)

	The penis and foreskin: Preputial anatomy and sexual function
		Winkelmann explains the importance of the mucocutaneous boundary in human sexual response.
		The prepuce of the human male is an elastic platform for the nerve endings composed of muscle fibers embedded within the skin, so the whole prepuce may be regarded as the principal organ for perceiving the sixth sense of
		Cold and McGrath described the variations in the prepuce between human males and females and other primate species, concluding from an evolutionary perspective that the prepuce is highly evolved and has a specialized function in each species.
	www.cirp.org /library/anatomy (2100 words)

	Elexa™ by Trojan® - Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Masters and Johnson were sex researchers who described sexual response as the result of two principal physiological changes -- increase in blood flow to various parts of the body (vasocongestion) and increase in muscle tension (myotonia).
		Increase in blood pressure during sexual response may result in automatic dysreflexia (dangerously high blood pressure that may be experienced as a severe headache), especially in people with SCI at or above T6.
		Another model of sexual response which focuses more on the psychosocial aspects of human sexual response was suggested by therapist, David Reed.
	www.elexabytrojan.com /article2.aspx?id=5 (1046 words)

	Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
		However, in trying to understand and treat women who may be experiencing sexual distress, questions have naturally arisen about the differences between male and female sexual response.
		This model acknowledges that female sexual functioning proceeds in a more complex and circuitous manner than male sexual functioning and that female functioning is dramatically and significantly affected by numerous psychosocial issues (e.g., satisfaction with the relationship, self-image, previous negative sexual experiences).
		From this point of sexual neutrality—where a woman is receptive to being sexual but does not initiate sexual activity—the desire for intimacy prompts her to seek ways to become sexually aroused via conversation, music, reading or viewing erotic materials, or direct stimulation.
	www.arhp.org /factsheets/femalesexualresponse.cfm (1107 words)

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