Sexual disorders

19th dec 2015 Sunday

Dr. Sami Adil
• Sexual identity: based on the person’s sexual characteristics, such as
external and internal genitalia, hormonal characteristics, and
secondary sexual characteristics.
• Gender identity: based on person’s sense of maleness of femaleness,
established by the age of 3 and believed to have been determined by
parents.
• Gender role: the external behavioral patterns that reflect the person’s
inner sense of gender identity.
• Sexual orientation: based on the person’s choice of love object; may
be heterosexual (opposite sex), homosexual (same sex), bisexual
(both sexes, or asexual (no sex).
Masturbation
• “masturbation insanity”.
• Not a disease, nor as a sign of a disease.
• Some references states that: “All men and women masturbate.”
• Genital self-stimulation begins at the age of 15 to 19 months, with no
sexual fantasies present.
• Commonly seen among adolescents, married couples, and the elderly.
Excessive only if it interferes with daily functioning.
Homosexuality

• Removed from the DSM in 1980 as a mental illness.

• Freud …. arrest of psychosexual develop.
• may be due to genetic and biologic causes. MZ DZ