This document discusses human sexual behavior and the physiology of the human sexual response. It notes that sexual behavior can be solitary or involve two or more people. The two main factors that determine human sexual behavior are inherited sexual response patterns and societal influences. Types of sexual behavior include solitary behavior like self-gratification, and sociosexual behavior between individuals like petting and intercourse. The document also outlines the stages of human sexual response - excitement, plateau, climax, and resolution phases.
This document discusses human sexual behavior and the physiology of the human sexual response. It notes that sexual behavior can be solitary or involve two or more people. The two main factors that determine human sexual behavior are inherited sexual response patterns and societal influences. Types of sexual behavior include solitary behavior like self-gratification, and sociosexual behavior between individuals like petting and intercourse. The document also outlines the stages of human sexual response - excitement, plateau, climax, and resolution phases.
This document discusses human sexual behavior and the physiology of the human sexual response. It notes that sexual behavior can be solitary or involve two or more people. The two main factors that determine human sexual behavior are inherited sexual response patterns and societal influences. Types of sexual behavior include solitary behavior like self-gratification, and sociosexual behavior between individuals like petting and intercourse. The document also outlines the stages of human sexual response - excitement, plateau, climax, and resolution phases.
This document discusses human sexual behavior and the physiology of the human sexual response. It notes that sexual behavior can be solitary or involve two or more people. The two main factors that determine human sexual behavior are inherited sexual response patterns and societal influences. Types of sexual behavior include solitary behavior like self-gratification, and sociosexual behavior between individuals like petting and intercourse. The document also outlines the stages of human sexual response - excitement, plateau, climax, and resolution phases.
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HUMAN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR Is defined as any activity – solitary, between two persons, or in a group – that induces sexual arousal. There are two major factors that determine human sexual behavior: the inherited sexual response pattern that have evolved as a means of ensuring reproduction and that becomes a part of each individual’s genetic inheritance; and the degree of restraint or other types of influence exerted on the individual by society in the expression of his sexuality. TYPES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 1. Solitary Behavior Involves one individual, and there is sociosocial behavior involving more than one person. Self – gratification means self-stimulation that leads to sexual arousal and generally, sexual climax. Usually, it takes place in private as an end in itself, but can be also done in a sociosexual relationship. Self gratification, generally beginning at or before puberty, is very common among young males. CONTINUATION... 1. Solitary Behavior But it becomes less frequent or is abandoned when sociosexual activity is available. Self-gratification is most frequent among the unmarried. Majority of males and females have fantasies of some sociosexual activity while they gratify themselves. The fantasies frequently involves idealized sexual partners and activities that the individual has not experienced and even might avoid in real life. CONTINUATION... 1. Solitary Behavior Nowadays, humans are frequently being exposed to sexual stimuli especially from advertising and social media. Some adolescents become aggressive when they respond to such stimuli. The rate of teenage pregnancy is increasing in our time. The challenge is to develop self-control in order to balance suppression and free expression. TYPES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 1. Sociosexual Behavior It occurs between only one male and one female. It usually begins in childhood and may be motivated by curiosity, such as showing or examining genitalia. There is a varying degree of sexual impulse and responsiveness among children. Physical contact involving necking or petting is considered as an ingredient of the learning process and eventually courtship. CONTINUATION... 1. Sociosexual Behavior Petting may be done as an expression of affection and a source of pleasure, preliminary to coitus. It is also a way of learning how to interact with another person sexually. Coitus, the insertion of male reproductive structure into the female reproductive organ, is viewed by society quite differently depending upon the marital status of the individuals. Marital coitus is an obligation if they are couple. A behavior may be interpreted by society or the individual as erotic depending on the context in which behavior occurs. For example, a kiss may be interpreted as gesture/expression or intimacy. Touching someone’s genitalia is not interpreted as a sexual act especially when its done for medical purposes. PHYSIOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE EXCITEMENT PHASE It is caused by increase in pulse and blood pressure; A sudden rise in blood supply to the surface of the body resulting in increase in skin temperature, flushing, and swelling of all distensible body parts. PLATEAU PHASE It is generally of brief duration. If stimulation is continued, orgasm usually occurs. SEXUAL CLIMAX Marked by a feeling of abrupt, intense pleasure, a rapid increase in pulse rate and blood pressure, and spasms of the pelvic muscles causing contractions of the female reproductive organ and ejaculation by the male Sexual climax may last for a few seconds, after which the individual enters the resolution phase. RESOLUTION PHASE It is the last stage that refers to the return to a normal or subnormal physiologic state. Males and females are similar in their response sequence. Whereas male return to normal even if stimulation continues, but continued stimulation can produce additional orgasms in females. Females are physically capable of repeated orgasms without the intervening “rest period” required by males.
