Chapter Exercise
Which Model Fits?
Five brief presentations. For each, choose the framework that best accounts for what the client describes. The point of the exercise is simple: the model you hold determines what you will call a dysfunction.
Quick Reference
Masters and Johnson (1966)Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution. A physiological description of what the body does.
Kaplan (1979)Desire, then excitement, then orgasm. Desire is a separate phase that comes first.
Basson (2000)Desire can be responsive, arriving after arousal has already begun, rather than spontaneous.
Dual Control (2000)Response depends on the balance between sexual excitation and sexual inhibition in a given context.
Arousal non-concordance (2010)Genital response and subjective arousal are separate systems and only loosely correlated, particularly in women. Genital response does not indicate desire or consent.
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References
Bancroft, J., & Janssen, E. (2000). The dual control model of male sexual response. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 24(5), 571–579.
Basson, R. (2000). The female sexual response: A different model. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 26(1), 51–65.
Chivers, M. L., Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L., Laan, E., & Grimbos, T. (2010). Agreement of self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal in men and women: A meta-analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(1), 5–56.
Kaplan, H. S. (1979). Disorders of sexual desire. Brunner/Mazel.
Masters, W. H., & Johnson, V. E. (1966). Human sexual response. Little, Brown.