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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules). Module 27 Sexual Motivation James A. McCubbin, PhD Clemson University Worth Publishers. Sexual Motivation. Sex is a physiologically based motive, like hunger, but it is more affected by learning and values. Sexual Motivation.

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)

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  1. 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

  8. Sexual Motivation • Births to unwed parents

  9. Sexual Motivation • Sexual Orientation • an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one’s own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation)

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