Sexual Disorders

Sexual Disfunction Cont...

Most common fetish items

• people with fetishes are mostly male
• the fetish usually begins in adolescence
• often develope from unusual learning experiences

Sexual masochism is the inability to enjoy sex without accompanying emotional or physical pain.

Pedophilia is the desire to have sexual relationships with prepubescent children sd the preffered or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.

Sexual Dysfunction

Sexual Desire Disorders

• Low sexual desire is more common among women than among men.

• Sexual desire disorders involve a lack of interst in sex or perhaps an active distaste for it.

• Orgasm disorders ar more common among women then men.

• Disorders are sometimes caused by a Physical abnormality.

• Some people are able to experience sexual desire and maintain arousal but are unable to reach an orgasm. These people are said to have orgasmic disorders.

Orgasmic Disorders

Orgasmic Disorders cont....

• The most common disorder among males is premature ejaculation.

• The most common disorder among women is vaginismus.

- the loss or impairment of the ordinary physical responses of sexual function.

Men

• Erectile dysfunction (ED) - the inability of a man to acheive or maintain an erection.
• In one study, nearly 10 % of 40 to 70-year-old men had completed ED, 25% moderate ED, and 17% minimal ED. Less than half the men in this age group reported having no ED.
• Sildenafil Citrate, or Viagra, is shown to be extremely effective in treating many men who have ED.
• Viagra will help a man acheive and keep an erection, but it will not produce one unless the man is already sexually aroused.
• For that reason, specialists advise physicians to first address the psychological factors that may underlie sexual dysfunction before prescribing Viagra.

Women

• Female sexual arousal disorder- the inability of a woman to be able to become sexually excited or to reach orgasm.

These conditions were once called "impotence" and "frigidity," respectively, but professionals in the field have rejected these terms as negative and judgmental.

Paraphilias involve the use of unconventional sex objects or situations to obtain sexual arousal.

Wearing clothes of the opposite sex to achieve sexual gratification

A fetish is the repeated use of a nonhuman object as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.

Exhibitionism is the cumpulsion to expose one's genitals in public to achieve sexual arousal.

Fetishes

Exhibitionism

Transvestic Fetishism

Leather items

Lady's shoes or clothing

• an almost exclusively heterosexual male behavior
• no evidence of hormonal or genetic cause
• possible cause is childhood cross-dressing
• 78% are married or previously were married
• marital conflict is one of the main reason men with this condition seek therapy

Rubber items

Paraphlilias

Voyeurism is the desire to watch others haveing sex, or to spy on nude people.

Frotteurism

Frotteurism is the cumpulsion to achieve sexual arousel by touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person in public situations.

Voyeurism

Sexual Masochism

Sexual sadism ties sexual pleasure to agression, people with this paraphelia feel the need to humiliate or physically harm their sex partners.

• most people who commit child abuse are close to the child
• 5% of women in the San Francisco area reported that they had been forced into sexual acts by their father, setpfather, or brother during childhood
• most pedophiles are men under age 40
• there is no single cause:

• commit sexual offenses against children in response to a temporary aggressive mood
• pedophiles tend to have a history of sexual frustration and failure, they percieve themselves as immature being dependent, unassertive, lonely, and insecure.

Sexual Sadism

Pedophilia

- cannot adjust to the sexual role of an adult male

- turn to children in response to stress in adult relations

- feel inadequate in adult relationships

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Sexual Disorders

Gender-Identity Disorders

• Gender-identity disorders are when people want to become a member of the opposite sex

There is also a gender-identity in children

• for example, when a boy wants to be a girl they will reject to their clothing

and wear their sister's clothes and will only want to play with girls

• in these cases the children are uncomfortable with being a male or a

female and do not want to accept themselves that way.

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• Most gender-identity disorders start in childhood and sometimes it will be carried into adult life.
• Some will undergo surgery.

-one possible surgery is Sexual Reassignment Surgery, removing sex organs

and create reasonable facsimles of the organs of the opposite sex.

Gender

• the causes of gernder-identity disorders is unknown.
• there are some the theories that suggests that it is caused by genetic (chromosomal) abnormalities, hormone imbalances during fetal and childhood development, defects in normal human bonding and child rearing, or a combination of these factors.