Chapter 13

• Summarize the contributions of the following scientists in advancing our understanding of sexuality from a scientific perspective:
  • Charles Darwin
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Havelock Ellis
  • Alfred Kinsey
• Describe how the brain is involved with sexual activity.
• Discuss some of the issues concerning the term sexual arousal from the perspectives of psychology, physiology, subjective experience, and gender differences.
• Identify the four phases of the human sexual response defined by Masters and Johnson, as well as some of the different levels on which they can be described.
• State the factors that distinguish temporary sexual problems from sexual dysfunction disorders.
• Classify each of the sexual dysfunction disorders covered in this chapter in terms of four categories related to desire, arousal, orgasm, and pain.
• Summarize the diagnostic criteria for each of the sexual dysfunction disorders and paraphilic disorders covered in this chapter.
• Compare the similarities and differences between female sexual interest/arousal disorder and male hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
• Define the two types of genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder and the causes of each.
• Identify the factors that assessment for therapy for sexual dysfunction disorders focused on and how they are important in successful treatment.
• Know the factors that distinguish paraphilia from paraphilic disorders.
• Assess why Exhibitionism should be treated seriously as a crime.
• Evaluate the clinical definition of pedophilic disorder in terms of does require an actual sexual act with a child? And is anyone who performs a sexual act with a child a pedophile? Explain why or why not.
• In terms of treatment approaches for paraphilic disorders overall, answer the following questions:
  • What are the three primary sources through which treatment is initiated?
  • What pharmacological approaches are used, and what aspects of the disorder do they target?
  • What psychotherapy approaches are used, and what aspects of the disorder do they target?
• Define the following terms, and the relationships that exist among them
  • Gender roles
  • Gender identity
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Transgender
  • Transsexual
  • Transvestism