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    Sexual arousal can vary from person to person. Some people are aroused just by looking at a person, being touched in a certain place on one’s body, or thinking about a sexual act. Sexual arousal, or sexual excitement, is described as a physiological state as well as emotional. Physiologically, it is defined as an increased amount of blood flow to the genitals during a sexual act. As the amount of blood flow increased to the genitals, the clitoris swells for the woman and the penis erects for a man

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    A paraphilia is known as a medical category which medical doctors created in the 1920s to describe abnormal sexual arousal to individuals, objects, or situations that are not considered normal or typical behavior in a community and causes personal distress or serious problems. Quinsey (2011) noted that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes paraphilias as mental disorders. He stated that this is because they are known to include a behavioral or psychological dysfunction

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    Female Sexual Arousal Disorder Women have low sexual desire. Of the female sexual dysfunctions, the most common involve an absence of sexual interest and eagerness to be sexual. Also, one's desire for sex might be intact, but they have difficulty with arousal or are incapable of becoming aroused or maintain arousal during sexual activity. Another female sexual dysfunction is in the orgasmic (physical) disorder where the individual has persistent, repetitive trouble in achieving climax after an adequate

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    scholarly journal I found the disorders in sexual desire and sexual arousal in women comes from the study of the difference in sexual motivation between men and women. This disorder consists of a lack of sexual fantasies and desire for any form of sexual activity. The author was trying to show the difference in how women react to different sexual responses and what can cause lack of sexual desires. It did figure out that women show lower and less frequent sexual motivation than men. Normally, single

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    Mah Sona #: 174835 Name of Article: “Sexual Arousal and Masculinity-Femininity of Women” Name of Journal: “Journal of Personality and Social Psychology” Author Name: Gerulf Riger, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, Meredith L. Chivers, J. Michael Bailey   This article was about females’ sexual arousal and masculinity- femininity. It began by stating that it doesn’t matter what the female’s partner’s sex is, they can be sexually aroused by both genders. Their sexual arousal is dependent on other factors such

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    Female Sexual Arousal Disorder Donna Lindley BEH/225 March 3, 2013 Christina Lakeman There are many different disorders that a person can have and one common disorder is female sexual arousal disorder. This is the second most common sexual dysfunction in women. ("Female Sexual Arousal Disorder", 2013). There are many women who suffer from the dysfunction. Sexual arousal in women can be broken into three categories, genital arousal disorder, subjective arousal disorder, and combined arousal

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    distinguishes the aims between erotica, arotic art and pornography. Erotica has the aim of sexual stimulation, erotic art aims as artistic interest and sexual stimulation and/arousal, and pornography aims at sexual arousal and release. Although, both erotic art and pornography can have sexual arousal as an aim, erotic art aims at sexual arousal by primarily aiming at artistic interest, while pornography only aims at sexual arousal so

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    describes her sexual awakening and development as someone capable of adult intimacy. These two forms of electricity are radically different, yet both relate to powerful moments in Esther’s life as a young adult. While electricity in the form of electrocution and electroshock becomes associated with punishment and a loss of control over oneself, static electricity marks Esther’s transition from an almost childlike idea of romance, absent of sexual intimacy, to an adult who embraces that sexual intimacy

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    Chapter 9 Motivation and Emotion MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Motives activate behavior and propel the organism a.|to flee.|c.|toward goals.| b.|to respond.|d.|to drives.| ANS: C DIF: 2 REF: 9-188 OBJ: 1 MSC: TYPE: Factual 2. The study of motivation is an attempt to understand __________ a behavior occurs. a.|why|c.|when| b.|how|d.|all of these| ANS: A DIF: 1 REF: 9-188 OBJ: 1 MSC: TYPE: Factual NOT: BTC 3. Psychologists define hypothetical states that activate behavior and propel one towards

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    Generally people associate raves(Underground Techno parties) with designer drugs like Ecstasy(MDMA), Speed(amphetamine) and other acids like LSD. These drugs are called the Techno Drugs for that reason and most of the time have uplifting and sensatory effects. To understand more clearly the relationship between the raves and these drugs, we first have to understand the philosophy behind the Techno era, and a little about the music. “Techno, can lift the spirit and become a new world of freedom and

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