Chapter 9 describes the physiology of sexual response in both men and women. In this chapter the authors:
Discuss Masters and Johnson's four stages of sexual response: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
Discuss cognitive-physiological models, including Kaplan's triphasic model of sexual response and Walen and Roth's cognitive model of arousal and sexual response.
Discuss hormonal and neural control of sexual behavior, including the role of the brain and the spinal cord in sexual response, and the function of pheromones.
