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AbstractA model proposed to account for hypnotic phenomena is extended and specifically applied to understanding human sexual response. It is proposed that orgasmic response is potentiated by effective sexual stimulation that is subjectively experienced as (1) pleasurable sexual sensations and (2) the emotions of excitement and joy. Effective sexual stimulation is a joint function of the density of physical sexual stimulation and depth of involvement in the sexual contact episode.Involvementis a complex of psychological processes in which there is an interaction of fundamental emotions (interest‐excitement and enjoyment‐joy) with cognitions and actions that can be described by three dimensions: (1) sexual role enactment, (2) sexual trance, and (3) engagement with the sex partner.The fundamental emotions of excitement and joy amplify sex drive, are a source of sexual pleasure and meaning, and are bonded to specific preferred dimensions of involvement. The concept ofdepthis used to describe the state of absorption at a particular moment during the sexual contact episode and a pattern of progression from shallow to deep to resurfacing that is believed to facilitate the progression of phases in the human sexual response cycle. Specified levels of depth of involvement and conditions or procedures that facilitate deepening involvement are described for each dimension. Involvement in sexual role enactment deepens as participation shifts from disinterested to casual to routine to engrossed to entranced to ecstatic depths. Sexual self‐role congruence, sexual role perception and sexual role skills are required for involved, convincing, and appropriate sexual role enactment. Sexual trance is enhanced by procedures, such as those found in sex therapy, hypnosis, and meditation, that help the person abandon the generalized reality‐orientation and form the special sexual‐orientation.Sexual trance deepens when there is a partial relaxation of critical functions and partial orientation to sexual meanings, as the reality‐orientation continues to fade and attention is predominantly focused on the special sexual‐orientation. Involvement in sexual trance deepens through six levels: (1) partial relaxation of critical orientation and partial orientation to sexual meaning of experience, (2) fading of the generalized reality‐orientation and predominant focus of attention on the special sexual‐orientation, (3) abandonment of the generalized reality‐orientation and establishment of the special sexual‐orientation, (4) deliberately focused, concentrated awareness, (5) involuntary fascination, (6) total absorption in the special sexual‐orientation.Although deep involvement in sexual role enactment and sexual trance is possible with a broad range of partners, deep involvement in the dimension of engagement with the sex partner requires a narrow latitude of acceptance. Depth of involvement with the partner is described as consisting of six levels: (1) past‐oriented, ego‐centered, (2) present‐oriented, ego‐centered, (3) self‐oriented, surface‐centered, (4) partner‐oriented, surface‐centered, (5) partner‐oriented, core‐centered, and (6) union‐oriented, core‐centered involvement. Depth of engagement with the partner in a particular episode is a function of the strength and salience of the bond between the partners, core personality participation, and the meaning of the sexual contact episode. Imbalanced involvement based upon a single preferred dimension results in sexual contact episodes with different characteristics. When sexual role enactment is the preferred dimension of involvement, the sexual mood will be playful with high self esteem, the setting will be dramatic and exhibitionistic, the sexual techniques will be varied, the sexual style will be active and expressive, fantasies will contain a scripted plot, and sex is conceived to be an adventure or drama that leads to involuntary ecstatic expression and orgasm in which the participants are protypical men and women.When sexual trance is the preferred pathway of involvement, the setting requires freedom from distractions, the mood is relaxed and receptive, sexual techniques emphasize repetitive, sensual pacing, the sexual style is passive and inwardly oriented, fantasies are scriptless sensory images, and sex is conceived to be an altered state of consciousness or a trip that leads to intense absorption into sensation and orgasm with faded consciousness in which the person is transported. When engagement with the sex partner programs the sexual contact episode, then the mood and setting are romantic reminders of the love bond, the sexual techniques emphasize kissing, cuddling, and face‐to‐face contact, the sexual style is affectionate and mutually pleasuring, the fantasies are romantic, sex is conceived to be a loving merger, and orgasms are flowing with a loss of the self in a loving union.The learned preference for a dimension of involvement is conserved in an affective‐cognitive‐action structure named thepreferred dimension structure. The preferred dimension structure has five components: (1) a program for selecting preferred moods, settings, and partners for initiating the sexual contact episode, (2) a program for guiding the preferred interpersonal interaction, sexual styles, and range and progression of sexual acts of the participants, (3) a program for a preferred means of facilitating and amplifying human sexual response through involvement in congruent role‐enactment, focused and entrancing awareness, or salient and strong engagement with the partner, (4) a predisposition to experience the amplifying fundamental emotions of interest‐excitement and enjoyment‐joy in specific combinations, and (5) a predisposition to assign significance and meanings as a function of the emotions experienced, in part, as a consequence of the match between the actual sexual contact episode and the goal image of the preferred dimension structure.The present theory is a concatenated or pattern theory that will grow by intension; that is, as the relevant empirical data are collected, the pattern will become more sharply focused and the theory tightened. Initial stages of a research program to investigate the usefulness of the theory will focus on measuring depth of involvement and preferred dimension structure.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551060

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1980

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AbstractThe precautions that sexual physiology researchers report taking to protect human subjects' rights, safety, and welfare are reviewed. Twenty‐eight articles were selected as representative of research that was highly sensitive and potentially invasive of subjects' rights. Aspects of subject orientation procedures were categorized into 20 objectives or topics. The topics specifically reported to subjects in each article were tabulated. Those most commonly mentioned were privacy during data recording, instructions for instrument placement, and remuneration. Several important objectives were infrequently cited in the orientation protocols: subject anonymity, potential hazards and safeguards, potential benefits, and informed consent. The lack of consistency and of completeness in reporting details of subject orientation in these sex research papers is discussed. A protocol is presented incorporating the most important elements of human subject orientation.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551061

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年代:1980

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AbstractThis paper examines in some detail the technological innovations which have helped women overcome the physical disabilities of being female, i.e., their pregnancies and the subsequent need to nurse their babies. It was probably these aspects of being female that led Freud and others to proclaim that“biology is destiny.”By 1900 in general and certainly in all particulars by 1920, technological breakthroughs lessened these disadvantages. Still psychologists, psychiatrists, and others have tended to look backwards in their assessment of women's role rather than forward. As a result the cultural lag between innovation and change was prolonged, and this has led to criticism of Freud and others by modern feminists. The result is a reassessment of the psychological evaluation of women.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551062

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年代:1980

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AbstractOn the assumption that cognitive processes mediate sexual learning and sexual behavior, it was hypothesized that there would be a positive correlation between self reports of sexual arousability and imagery ability. A positive relationship between imagery ability and introversion was also predicted. The Sexual Arousability Inventory, Betts Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery (Shortened form), and the Eysenck Personality Inventory were administered to 100 male and 100 female undergraduate students. Males and females reporting greater ability to form clear, vivid images also reported significantly higher sexual arousability. Imagery ability was not related to introversion‐extraversion. Female extraverts reported higher sexual arousability than their introverted counterparts. Frequency of coitus and of coital orgasm were significantly related to reports of sexual arousability for males and females. Implications and limitations of the findings are discussed.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551063

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年代:1980

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ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551064

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年代:1980

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551065

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1980

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ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224498009551059

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1980

数据来源: Taylor