Key Factors Determining Sexual Functioning

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Lauren Muratore SEXH 5404 Student ID: 480262655 Word Count: 1625 Essay #1 Key Factors Determining Sexual Functioning Key Factors That Determine Healthy Human Sexual Functioning Having a healthy sexually functioning and satisfying life is imperative to many people across the globe. However, cultural differences, certain age brackets, differences between men and women both biologically, psychologically, and psychosocially will affect sexual functioning across the board. Pleasure and desire can also be subjective between the two sexes, which can then create sexual dysfunctioning for couples and individuals (Binik & Hall, 2014). Biological Wincze and Weisberg (2015) state specific factors that could affect a man’s …show more content…

With a theory that associated self-objectification in eating disorders, depression, and sexual functioning, the least studied of these was sexual functioning. Amongst a sample size of 426 sexually active, heterosexual, cisgender women, results suggested, “body surveillance was negatively related to both appearance anxiety during sexual activity and depression” (Vencill, Tebbe & Garos, 2015, p. 471). Results also concluded that appearance anxiety during sexual activity was negatively associated with sexual functioning physically and overall sexual well-being; yet depression was negatively associated with sexual well-being but not related to sexual functioning (Vencill, Tebbe & Garos, 2015, p. …show more content…

For example, it could be suggested in the Western world, men are expected to always be ready and willing for sex, yet men are influenced by the same factors of women, such as: hormones, stress, anxiety, aging, and the overall satisfaction of the relationship (Wince & Weisberg, 2015). The cultural norm has also shifted from women not being into sex to now also expecting to enjoy it and have multiple orgasms. On a global scale, Western cultural values generally assume a marriage to be out of mutual love; and for the sex to be consensual, desirable, often monogamous, intimate and pleasurable (Binik & Hall, 2015). Just a few dysfunctions to look at with those values could be painful intercourse for women if the desire isn’t there, pressure on men to perform causing ED or performance anxiety, infidelity, fertility issues and problems surrounding childbirth for both sexes, just to name a

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