Sexual disorders
19th dec 2015 SundayDr. 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