Sex And The Conditioned Reflex

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 20:57

Our life consists of conditioned reflexes (getting up to work, first with an alarm clock, and then without, out of habit, every morning at the same time, eating at certain hours, before which gastric juice and saliva are secreted, sexual arousal in a man, who sees a woman in a miniskirt and high heels, etc.).

Researchers trying to comprehend the causes of a person's arousal from specific sexual stimuli have come to the conclusion that conditioned reflexes have not been avoided here as well.

So, for example, in order to form a certain sexual habit, any action, a thing must be associated with sexual pleasure.

In non-drug treatment of deviant sexual behavior (exhibitionism, sadism, frotteurism, etc.), the conditioned reflex could be used as a way of weaning. One of these methods: the patient had to masturbate to something socially unacceptable that aroused him (for example, to scenes of rape), and at the moment of orgasm he was presented with plots with traditional sex.

An aversive stimulus could also be used to form a conditioned connection with disgust. For example, upon reaching sexual arousal or orgasm caused by unwanted stimuli, the patient was shocked and a drug that induces nausea was administered. The principle is very similar to coding for alcohol addiction.

The satiety method could also be used: having reached orgasm from a certain stimulus, the patient had to continue to masturbate to the same stimulus. Over time, the stimulus more often lost its strength.

In families where they tried to raise children with high moral standards, growing up, they experienced a lot of fear, guilt, and shame associated with sex. Accordingly, sex began to be associated with something vicious, "dirty".

In such conditions, sexuality is suppressed and can be realized in some unusual way, sex life often goes into the shadows.

Why, in this case, sexuality is realized in an unusual way and special conditions are required to achieve pleasure? To answer this question, it is necessary to remember under what conditions these children experienced pleasant sexual experiences.

So, one client was aroused in a situation when, at the moment of orgasm from a jet from the tap, her partner was watching her. From childhood memories, she experienced her first orgasm in the same conditions at the age of 13, only her grandmother, with whom she then lived, caught her doing this.

In a book on sexology, a case is described of how a man developed a craving for sadomasochism in sex. As a teenager, doctors did painful manipulations on his arm, and while experiencing this pain, an attractive nurse with a seductive neckline pressed his face to her chest.

Scientist Rachman in the laboratory formed a moderate fetish in male subjects. He has repeatedly combined a photograph of women's boots with erotic slides of nude women. Subjects soon began to develop a sexual response to some of the shoes. This reaction also extended to other types of women's shoes. Although some critics have suggested that Rachman's experiment suffers from methodological problems (O'Donohue & Plaud, 1994), two additional studies have added new evidence to support the development of fetishism through classical conditioning (Langevin & Martin, 1975; Rachman & Hodgson, 1968) …