Exam 10: Disorders Involving Gender and Sexuality

Sex therapy typically uses ______ techniques in a brief therapy format.

Gerald and Elaine like to engage in mutually gratifying sex play in which one of them uses a feather brush to strike the other. No actual pain is administered; it is more the sense of Dominating or being dominated that each of them finds gratifying, and they frequently switch Roles so that one time Gerald uses the brush on Elaine, and other times Elaine uses the brush On Gerald. Their behavior is typical of ______.

Investigators are exploring biomedical therapies for female sexual dysfunctions, including use of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs such as Viagra.

Most people with pedophilia are in their ______.

Women with performance may fail to become adequately aroused or have difficulty achieving orgasm.

Treatment for vaginismus often includes the technique of ______.

Steve has experienced premature ejaculation with every sexual partner he has ever had. His sexual dysfunction is ______.

How would normal sex role play with sadomasochistic themes differ from that which would warrant a clinical diagnosis of sexual masochism disorder or sexual sadism disorder?

Recently, investigators found they could distinguish men with pedophilia from (non-pedophilic) healthy men with nearly _____ accuracy by examining brain responses, as measured by an fMRI scan, to images of nude children versus nude women.

A convenient place for a frotteurist to act out his needs would be ______.

In the DSM system, there has been consensus to classify transgender identity as a mental disorder.

About one in three women who use ________experience impaired orgasmic response or complete lack of orgasm.

The word "sadism" is derived from ______.

Most cases of pedophilia involve "dirty old men" who hang around schoolyards in raincoats.

Gender dysphoria typically begins in adolescence.

The involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the vagina when vaginal penetration is attempted, making sexual intercourse difficult or impossible, is known as ______.

Many transgender individuals do not warrant a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, as they show no evidence of significant distress or impairment in daily functioning needed to meet diagnostic criteria.

In Hispanic culture, the marianismo stereotype is linked in the text to ______.

A person with pedophilia must be an individual of at least 16 years of age and at least ______ years older than the victim.

A major problem in treating paraphilias is that many of the people who have them do not want to change.