After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Describe the five stages of the sexual response cycle, and the gender differences evident in it.
2. Distinguish between hypoactive sexual desire and sexual aversion disorder.
3. Describe female sexual arousal disorder and male erectile disorder.
4. Describe female orgasmic disorder (anorgasmia), male orgasmic disorder, and premature ejaculation.
5. Describe dyspareunia and vaginismus.
6. Discuss the biological causes of sexual dysfunctions, including specific medical conditions and drugs, and how biologically-caused dysfunctions differ from those caused by psychological factors.
7. Discuss the relationship problems, traumas, and attitudes that can cause sexual dysfunctions.
8. Discuss some cultural differences in sexual dysfunctions.
9. Discuss the drugs and biological procedures used to treat sexual dysfunctions.
10. Discuss the components of sex therapy with particular respect to sensate focus therapy, the stop-start technique, and the squeeze technique.
11. Describe how couples therapy and individual psychotherapy can be useful to treat sexual dysfunctions.
12. Discuss how clinicians should confront clients whose values about sex differ from their own.
13. Discuss the differences between paraphilias and normal sexual fantasies.
14. Describe fetishism, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and frotteurism.
15. Discuss the causes, characteristics, and available treatments for pedophilia.
16. Distinguish among gender identity, gender role, and sexual orientation.
17. Discuss the characteristics of and treatments for gender identity disorder.
18. Distinguish between transsexualism and transvestitism.