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Title: 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

2
Sexual Motivation
  • Sex is a physiologically based motive, like
    hunger, but it is more affected by learning and
    values.

3
Sexual Motivation
  • Sexual Response Cycle
  • the four stages of sexual responding described by
    Masters and Johnson
  • excitement
  • plateau
  • orgasm
  • resolution

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
Forces Affecting Sexual Motivation
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Sexual Motivation
  • Births to unwed parents

9
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
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