Human Sexuality Test 2

- Emotional and pleasure centers of the brain.

- Cues from skin, genitals.. Basically when touching you become aroused.

- Vasocongestion and other changes in the genital region

- Vagina becomes lubricated with an alkaline fluid

- Increased changes in the vagina

- "Orgasmic platform" is created

- Breasts may become swollen and nipples may become erect

- Increase heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure

• - Vasocongestion leads to erection of the penis
• - Muscular tension increases throughout the body

• - Testes may increase in size by 50%
• - Cowper's glands often secrete fluid
• - Glands of the penis become swollen
• - Increased heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure

• - Strong muscle contractions at base of penis and anal area
• - Semen is expelled
• - Pleasurable feelings throughout the body

• - Body returns to unexcited state, process may take two hours
• - Drowsiness and relaxation

Excitement stage, Plateau stage, Orgasm stage, & Resolution stage.

- Sex drive

- Controls emotional behavior

Deisre stage, Excitement stage, and Orgasm stage.

• . Byrne's Models
• - Erotophiles vs. Erotphobes

• . Barlow's
• - Anxiety inhibits sexual functioning

• . Bancroft's Model
• - Central nervous system (COS)
• - Psychosomatic circle of sex

- Sensory input must be interpreted as sexual before it can lead to arousal

- Physiological arousal must be perceived and labeled as sexual arousal

• - Brain
• - Spinal Cord

- Control development of sex glands, external genitals, and nervous system in the fetus.

• - May activate or deactivate sexual behavior
• - Central arousal system is more influenced by hormones than the peripheral arousal system

- Don't feel their body parts match them which leads to taking hormones

- Dressing up as the opposite sex for sexual arousing purposes

- Sex refers to the biological differences on the sex chromosomes and sex organs of males and females

- Gender refers to the psychological condition of being feminine.

- Male & female each contribute 23 chromosomes to human embryo

- Embryos similar until about 7 weeks when the genetic code asserts itself. (XX or XY)

- Testosterone spurs the development of the male reproductive system

- XXY pattern, don't develop secondary sex characteristics, infertile, mildly retarded.

- Loss of X chromosome (X0) material, short, odd hairline, no ovaries or non functional

- XYY pattern, extra Y chromosome, larger, stronger, diminished intelligence, over represented in prisons

- Posses both ovarian and testicular tissue

- Posses gonads of one gender but external genitalia that are ambiguous or typical of the other gender.

- Also known as adrenogenital syndrone

- Genetic defect that causes the adrenal glands to produce to mush testosterone

- Males reach puberty early

- Females have masculinized genitalia

- Testosterone has no effect on target cells

- Males Woflian system does not develop but mis prevents mullarian devlopment as well

- Females little effect in development

- Undescended testes and underdeveloped penis

- Give the appearance of a vagina and clitoris as juvenile, but will develop male secondary sex characteristics at puberty

- Rare but in us many have been surgically altered and raised as females

- Fixed, oversimplified, conventional idea about a group of people

- Ways in which males and females are expected to behave

- Androgynous individuals have traits consistent with both male and female gender roles and are the most psychologically well adjusted.

- Undifferential-ed individuals are the most poorly adjusted

- Traditional males and females, adjustment depends on situational context

- Labeling of newborn as male or female based on biological features

- Both seem necessary to complete the process of gender identity

- Own psychological sense of being male or female and does not always correspond with biological sex

- Emotional congruence between sex and gender identity through