Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)

• Module 27
• Sexual Motivation
• James A. McCubbin, PhD
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Sexual Motivation

• Sex is a physiologically based motive, like
  hunger, but it is more affected by learning and
  values.

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Sexual Motivation

• Sexual Response Cycle
• the four stages of sexual responding described by
  Masters and Johnson
• excitement
• plateau
• orgasm
• resolution

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Sexual Motivation

• Refractory Period
• resting period after orgasm, during which a man
  cannot achieve another orgasm
• Sexual Disorder
• a problem that consistently impairs sexual
  arousal or functioning

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Sexual Motivation

• Estrogen
• a sex hormone, secreted in greater amounts by
  females than by males
• in nonhuman females, levels peak during
  ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity

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Sexual Motivation

• Testosterone
• most important of the male sex hormones
• both males and females have it, but the extra
  testosterone in males stimulates growth of sex
  organs in the fetus and development of the male
  sex characteristics during puberty

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Forces Affecting Sexual Motivation
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Sexual Motivation

• Births to unwed parents

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Sexual Motivation

• Sexual Orientation
• an enduring sexual attraction toward members of
  either ones own sex (homosexual orientation) or
  the other sex (heterosexual orientation)

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Sexual Motivation
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Sexual Motivation