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Paraphilia |
Unusual, unconventional sexual behavior |
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Paraphilic disorder |
Paraphilia that causes the person distress or impairs their functioning, or causes harm to self or others. |
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What is the order of the normal to abnormal continuum? |
Mild preference, strong preference, necessity (becomes abnormal), substitute for human partner |
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Compulsive sexual behavior |
A disorder in which the individual experiences intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, and associated sexual behaviors that are out of control and interfere with daily functioning. |
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Fetishism |
A persons sexual fixation on some object other than another human being and attachment of great erotic significance to that object. It develops early in life. |
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Learning theory in regards to fetishism |
A learned association is built between the fetish object and sexual arousal and orgasm |
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Cognitive psychology in regards to fetishism |
A serious cognitive distortion; arousal may be caused by guilt and self loathing. |
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Cross dressing |
Dressing as a member of the other gender |
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Transvestism |
The practice of dressing as a member of the other gender in order to experience sexual arousal |
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Sexual sadist |
A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from the suffering of another person |
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Sexual masochist |
A person who experiences intense sexual arousal from being beaten, bound, humiliated, or made to suffer |
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Voyeur |
A person who experiences sexual arousal from viewing unsuspecting persons who are bide undressing or having sex |
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Exhibitionist |
A person-usually a man-who derives sexual gratification from exposing his genitals to a mom consenting person. |
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Hypersexuality |
An excessive, insatiable sex drive. |
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Nymphomania |
Hyper sexuality in women |
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Satyriasis |
Hypersexuality in men |
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Asexuality |
A lack of sexual attraction. More likely among women. |
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Three categories of online sexual activities. |
Non arousal OSA, solitary arousal OSA, partnered arousal OSA |
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Non arousal OSA |
Looking for sex info or joining a dating service |
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Solitary arousal OSA |
Viewing sexual images |
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Partnered arousal OSA |
Engaging in virtual reality sex |
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Pornography addiction |
Craving for porn and the inability to control its use. Key question is whether the user really cannot control the behavior. |
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Asphyxiophilia |
The practice of inducing in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency in order to create sexual arousal or to enhance excitement and orgasm. Based on a belief that arousal and organ are intensified by reduced oxygen. Most deaths involve men. |
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Zoophilia |
Sexual contact with an animal. Also called bestiality or sodomy |
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Frotteurism |
Deriving sexual satisfaction from fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching or rubbing one’s gentle against the body of a non consenting person |
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Troilism |
Threesome; three people having sex. May reflect negotiated nonmonogamy |
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Saliromania |
A desire to damage or soil a woman or her clothes or the image of a woman. Found mainly in men. |
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Coprophilia |
Feces are important to sexual satisfaction |
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Urophilia |
Urine is important to sexual satisfaction |
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Necrophilia |
Sexual contact with a dead person |
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Sexsomnia |
Sleep sex, automatic, unintentional sexual behaviors during sleep. Considered a sleep disorder and not a Paraphilia |
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Rape |
Non consensual oral, anal, or vaginal penetration obtained by force, threat of bodily harm, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent. |
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PTSD (impact of rape) |
The long term psychological distress suffered by someone who has experienced a terrifying event. Symptoms include: anxiety, depression, nightmares, lack of feeling safe |
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Post traumatic growth |
Positive life changes and psychological development following exposure to trauma |
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Date rape |
One of the most common forms of rape. May result from male-female miscommunication. Males traditional view that no really means yes. |
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Marital rape |
The rape of a person by a current or former spouse. 13% of married women have experienced. Association between marital violence and rape. |
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Causes of rape |
Cultural values, sexual scripts, early family influences, peer group influences, characteristics of the situation, miscommunication, sex and power motives, masculinity norms and men’s attitudes. |
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Rape culture |
Deeply entrenched cultural attitudes about gender and sexuality that shape people’s attitudes about rape. |
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The role of alcohol in rape |
Men who are intoxicated are more likely to commit a sexual assault than men who are not intoxicated. Alcohol has pharmacological effects and psychological effects. Alcohol makes men feel more justified in raping. |
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Affects of alcohol on victims of rape |
Decline in cognitive functioning such as decision making, reduction in anxiety that might otherwise be protective. |
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Characteristics of rapists |
Social cognitions that support rape, poor inhibition and self regulation, lacking in empathy, may have experienced environmental triggers such as in war, tend to be part of a peer group that approves of forced sex and encourages sex with many women. |
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3 categories of preventing rape |
Avoiding situations in which there is a high risk of rape, if the first strategy has failed, knowing some self defense techniques in case a rape attempt is made, changing attitudes that contribute to rape. |
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Guidelines for potential date rape situations |
Avoid hazardous situations, communicate your limits clearly, be assertive, trust your instincts, respond physically |
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Rape awareness based programs |
Seek community change |
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Rape empathy based programs |
Seek understanding for victims |
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Rape social norms based programs |
Encourage individuals to question gender role norms that support violence. |
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Rape skill based programs |
Reduce risk |
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Sexual disorder |
A problem with sexual response that causes a person mental distress |
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Lifelong sexual disorder |
A sexual disorder that has been present ever since the person began sexual functioning. |
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Acquired sexual disorder |
A sexual disorder that develops after a period of normal functioning |
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Hyperactive sexual desire |
There is a lack of interest in sexual activity. Inhibited sexual desire or low sexual desire |
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Discrepancy of sexual desire |
The partners have considerably different levels of sexual desire |
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Female sexual interest/ arousal disorder |
Encompasses lack of interest in sexual activity and absent or reduced arousal during sexual interactions. Involves a lack of response to sexual stimulation and lack of lubrication |
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Erectile disorder |
The inability to have or maintain and erection |
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Lifelong erectile disorder |
The man has never been able to have an erection that is satisfactory for intercourse. |
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Acquired erectile disorder |
The man has had erections sufficient for intercourse at other times |
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Premature ejaculation |
The man ejaculates too soon and thinks he cannot control when he ejaculates. |
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Delayed ejaculation |
Make orgasmic disorder. The man cannot have an orgasm |
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Female orgasmic disorder |
Inability to have an orgasm. Aka orgasmic disfunction, anorgasmia, and inhibited female orgasm |
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Situational orgasmic disorder |
The woman is able to have an orgasm in some situations (while masturbating for example) but not in others ( while having sexual intercourse) |
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Dispareunia |
Painful intercourse. Usually in females |
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Vaginismus |
Spastic contraction of the muscles surrounding the entrance of the vagina. Some cases are so severe the entrance is closed and the woman cannot have intercourse |
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Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder |
The term in DSM-5 for pain during sex (dyspareunia) or vaginismus, which tend to occur together. |
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Organic factors of sexual disorders |
Physical factors, such as disease or injury that causes sexual disorders |
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Immediate causes of sexual disorders |
Things that happen in the act of lovemaking itself that inhibit the sexual response. Anxieties such as fear of failure |
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Cognitive interference |
Negative thoughts that distract a person from focusing on the erotic experience. |
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Spectatoring |
Masters and Johnson’s term for acting as an observer or judge of one’s own sexual performance |
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Prior learning |
Various things people learned earlier which now inhibit their sexual response. |
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Behavior therapy |
A system based on learning theory, in which the focus is on the problem behavior and how it can be modified or changed. Systemic desensitization to reduce anxiety. |
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Sensate focus exercises |
To eliminate a goal oriented attitude toward sex |
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Cognitive behavior therapy |
Combines behavior therapy and restructuring of negative thought patterns. Reduce the presence of interfering thoughts during sex. |
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Mindfulness |
The technique of focusing one’s attention on experiences in the present moment in a calm, nonjudgmental way. |
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Mindfulness therapy |
A system of training people in mindfulness practices. Help people regulate their own negative emotions. |
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Risk factors for STIs |
Multiple sexual partners False sense of safety Untreated conditions Impaired judgment Lack of immunity Body piercing Value judgments Denial Men who have sex with men |
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Preventing STIs |
Abstinence Vaccines for hepatitis B and HPV Reduce the number of sex partners Mutual monogamy Use condoms |
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If left untreated what can STDs cause |
Increased risk of giving or getting HIV, long term pelvic or abdominal pain, inability to get pregnant or pregnancy complications |
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Bacterial vaginosis |
Overgrowth of certain bacteria that can be transmitted during sexual intercourse. Symptoms include vaginal discharge, may have fishy smell, sometimes no symptoms |
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Chlamydia |
Caused by chlamydia trachomatis bacterium. Symptoms include pain during urination, white discharge, 7-21 days after infection. Can be treated with antibiotics (azithromycin or doxycycline) |
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Gonorrhea |
Aka the clap Caused by Neisseria gonorrheae bacterium, transmission occurs by genital, oral, or anal sexual contact. Symptoms include painful urination, yellowish discharge, sometimes pain, usually appear within 7-10 days. Can be treated with antibiotics but some are antibiotic resistant |
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Syphilis |
Caused by treponema pallidum. Transmitted through microscopic breaks in the skin through genital oral and anal contact and by direct transfer into the blood can infect fetus. Symptoms include painless open sore appears between 1 week and 3 months after infection . |
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Chancre |
A painless ulcer like lesion with a hard raised edge that is a symptoms of syphilis |
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Primary stage syphilis |
The first few weeks during which the chancre is present |
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Secondary stage syphilis |
Several months after infection the chancre has disappeared and a generalized body rash appears |
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Latent syphilis |
Symptoms disappear though the person is still infected may last for years |
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Late syphilis |
The disease does damage to major organs |
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Congenital syphilis |
Infection in a newborn baby resulting from transmission from an infected mother |
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Herpes simplex virus |
Hsv1 cold sores on mouth Hsv2 lesions on penis vagina labia rectum and skin do the genital pelvic and anal regions Cannot be cured Very contagious when a sore is present |
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Human papillomavirus and anogenital warts |
Most common STI in US Warts can be removed by medications or clinician applied treatments. Treatments remove warts but not HPV in cells. Spread primarily through genital contact. Vaccine for 2 types that cause 70% of cervical cancers and 2 types that cause 90% of genital warts. |
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Hepatitis B |
Disease of the liver, transmitted sexually and by blood, no specific treatment, vaccine available |
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Molluscum contagiosum |
Freckle sized rounded shiny whitish growths in the skin and trunk and anogenital region. No associated symptoms, may go away on their own or may be removed by health professional. |
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Trichomoniasis |
Most common curable sti in us. Vaginal infection caused by trichomona (a protozoan parasite) transmissible by sexual intercourse. More common in women. Vaginal itching cheesy odorous discharge from vagina. Successful treatment with medication. |
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Pubic lice |
Aka crabs Transferred by body to body contact or contact with objects where eggs might have been laid. Towels bed linens and clothes |
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Scabies |
Infestation of certain regions of the skin by small mites. Cause inching maybe small round nodules. Transmitted sexually and non sexually |
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HIV/AIDS |
Caused by HIV HIV destroys the body’s immune system cells used to combat infection. Leaving it susceptible to bacterial viral and fungal infections. Transmitted by blood semen or vaginal fluids. Mother can infect child in pregnancy childbirth or breast milk. No cure; treatment attempt to manage infections that result from immune suppression and keeping HIV infection in check. PrEP is used to prevent infection in people susceptible but HIV negative. |
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HIV testing |
Tests for anti HIV antibodies produced when a person is first infected. Can be done within 2-8 weeks after exposure. May not detect antibodies for 6 months or longer so repeat testing is necessary. Results in 20 min to a few days |