Associate Level Material
Appendix B
Sexual Response Cycles
Use your own words to complete the table below with the experiences and changes in anatomy of males and females during the various sexual response phases.
|Stage of Masters |Male Experience |Female Experience |
|and Johnson |and Anatomy |and Anatomy |
|Sexual Response Cycle | | |
|Excitement Phase |Males get penile erection 3 to 8 seconds after |Vaginal lubrication may start 10 to 30 |
| |stimulation begins. In older men erection may |seconds after stimulation begins. |
| |occur more slowly, but the response is the same. |Vasocongestion swells the clitoris, flattens |
| |Erection may subside and return as stimulation |the labia majora and spreads them apart, and |
| |varies. The scrotal skin may thicken while losing |increases the size of the labia majora. Then |
| |its baggy appearance. The testes will increase in |the inner two thirds of the vagina expand |
| |size, and then the scrotum and testes becomes |while the vaginal walls thicken, because of |
| |elevated. |the inflow of blood. The skin may take a rosy|
| | |sex flush in this phase. |
|Plateau Phase |Show a slight increase in...
