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What is a sexual disorder

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Problems with sexual response that can cause a person mental distress

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What is a long life sexual disorder

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A disorder that has been present since the person began sexual function

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What is a situational sexual disorder

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A disorder that someone has in some situations but no others

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What are erectile disorders

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The inability to have or maintain an erections

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What is hyposactive sexual disorder

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A disorder where there is a lack of sexual activity
The individual does not have spontaneous thoughts of sex or fantasies

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What is female sexual arousal disorder

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A sexual disorder in which the woman’s sexual arousal or interest is significantly reduced

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What is female orgasmic disorder

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A disorder in which a women is unable to have an orgasm

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What is genito-pelvic pain disorder

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Genital pain during actual or attempted inter course

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What is the bio psychosocial model of sexual disorders

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A model that argues that physical, psychological and social factors all contribute to sexual disorders

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What are the psychological causes of sexual disorders

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Predisaposed factors - experiences that people have had in the past that activate their sexual response
Maintaining factors - various ongoing life circumstances, personal characteristics, and lovemaking patterns that inhibit sexual response

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What are sensational focus excersizes

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Therapy developed by masters and Johnson where a partner carresses the other and communicates what is pleasurable

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What are the 4 types of date rape drugs

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  1. Rohypnol
    GHB
    Ketamine
    Ecstasy
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How was sexual assault classified before 1983

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Rape
Attempted rape
Indecent assault against a female
Indecent assault against a male

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What are the motives for sexual assault

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Anger, power, domination, sadism, or desire for sex regardless of party’s willingness

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What are potential impacts from sexual assault

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More likely to show psychological distress with things such as anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, and PTSD

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Psychopathology view of sexual assault

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Views that sexual assault is an act that is committed by disturbed men and that the man’s deviance is responsible for the crime being committed

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Feminist view of sexual assault

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Sexual assault is a product of gender roles

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Social disorganization view of sexual assault

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Believes that sexual assault crime rates increase after disruption to the social organization of a community

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What is commercial sex work

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Person who engage in sexual acts in return for money, gifts, or drugs and do so in a non discriminating fashion

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What are the 5 types of commercial sex workers

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Prostitution
Escorts
Erotic dancers
Phone sex workers
Phonographic models and actors

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What is prostitution

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Buying and selling of sex

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What are communication offenses

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Communicating in public for the purpose of engaging in prostitution or obtaining the sexual services or a prostitute

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What was the law that was passed in 2014

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Protection of communities and exploited person act
Made the purchasing of sex illegal rather than the selling of it
Also prohibited the advertisement of sexual services

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What are call girls

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Works out of her own residence, makes appointments with clients through the phone or internet

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What is a brothel
House of prostitution where sexual work and customers meet for sexual activity
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What are in call services
A residence in which sex workers work regular shifts, selling sexual services on a hourly basis
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What is a massage parlour
Place where massages and sexual services can generally be purchased
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What is a escort service
A service that sends a sex worker to a location specified by the lines to provide sexual services
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What is a streetwalker
Lower status sex worker who works on the streets selling sexual services
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What is a “quicke”
Usually a handjob or oral with a specified time limit
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What is a strip club
A place that provides sexualized interactions, not always physical intimate contact
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What is a pimp
The man, a sex workers companion, protector, or master
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What is a madam
Women who manage a brothel, and in call services, and out call services or an escort service
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What is sex trafficking
The recruitment and control of persons by threat or use of force for sexual exploitation
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How much does sex trafficking make per year
Estimated 7 billion
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What are the two explanation for entry to sex work
Negative experiences in childhood and adolescence Factors in environment at point of entry
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What are John’s
A term sex workers use to refer to their customers
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What are one time clients
Men the worker did not expect to see again (didn’t like these clients)
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Regular clients/friends
Repeat clients that worker had known some time (developed friendships out of trust and mutual liking)
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What is fallen in love
Men difficult to manage because they sought non commercial relationships and commitment
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What are long term financial providers
Men provide consistent , substantial financial support, often paying for major expenses on a regular basis, client expected special services such as spending the night
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What is a gigolo
Male who provides companionship and sexual gratification on continuing basis to women in exchange for money
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What are hustlers
Male sex workers who sell their services to men, often on the streets
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What is sex tourism
Leisure travel with the purpose of purchasing sexual services
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What is the community standards of tolerance test
The test used by the courts to determine whether something is obscene based on what Canadians would accept other Canadians being expose to whether it causes harm
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What are the four stages of sexual arousal
Excitement stage Plateau stage Orgasm stage Resolution stage
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What is the excitement stage
Stage at which erection for men occur or vaginal lubrication for women occur
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What happens in the orgasm stage
An intense sensation that occurs at peak of sexual arousal is followed by a release of sexual tension
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What happens in the resolution stage
The body returns to normal unaroused state
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What are the two types of female orgasms
Clitoral orgasm Vaginal orgasm
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What is the itimacy model of sexual desire
Kaplans model assumed that desire is before arousal, which then motivates the person to sex
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What is the dual control model of sexual desire
Sexual response is controlled by both excitation and by sexual inhibition
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Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered sperm swimming in semen
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Who was Oskar hertwig
First observed fertilization of the egg by sperm in sea urchins
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Who was Magnus hirschfeld
Founded the first sex research institute
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What is classical conditioning
How things in the environment can trigger certain things (learning through experience)
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What is operant conditioning
Things in our environment that follow behaviour may have an impact on our future behaviour
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what are the two basic functions of sexual arousal
Vasoconegtion - blow flow during sexual arousal Myotonia - muscle contractions or muscle tension

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