Psy 210 Sexuality Essay

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Psy210 10/18/09 Sexuality: What Do We Really Know? When we think of sex our inner child does everything to not giggle like a little school girl or boy, but when broken down into a science it would seem like we would lose some of the innocence in the act, when really all it does is answer some of the questions that needed to be asked: Why is it that men seem so much easier to please? And also why is it women seem to be involved into the act mentally as they are physically? This is not to say the one takes the feelings more than the other, but between men and women the similarities match the differences with the same results: Contractions, High Blood pressure, and rapid breathing. Scientist whose names are Masters and Johnson were able to break down our physical responses to the bodies’ sexual reactions and gave it a name, “The Sexual Response Cycle.” Now these scientist or psychologists were able to break down the bodies’ Sexual response cycle into four different stages: Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, and finally Resolution phase. Each phase is based off of the stage of arousal and what how the body is reacting to the Vascongestion. Vascongestion is the engorging of blood vessels with blood and the swelling of genitals and breast. In the initial phases, Excitement and Plateau, Vascongestion is very important as it is the body’s response to sexual stimulation which leads to erections for men, and vaginal lubrication for women. These phases are the starting point to the sexual response cycle and even though similar in description, men and women have many different bodily reactions. Men for example have the blood rush to their genitals engorging the penis with blood, the testis swelling, and the scrotum tightening allowing the testis to rise. Yet in women during these phases the clitoris flows with blood, much like the penis, the breast swell and the vaginal lips
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