SEXUAL AROUSAL
Sexual attraction and sexual arousal are not understood fully, but a probable reason is that each person develops his or her sexual arousal script as I have described in the last chapter. In the script, the person is the hero, to whom sexually exciting adventures occur. When a man meets a woman who resembles his fantasy partner, his sexual drive is started. He becomes sexually aroused. What happens to his body during sexual arousal has become clear from the research of Dr Masters and Dr Johnson. To help them analyse the physical components of sexual arousal they found it convenient to divide the rising sexual tension into four phases. They realized that the phases merged one into the other, and that the duration of each phase varied between individuals and with the strength of sexual arousal. The phases are, first, the excitement phase; second, the plateau phase; third, the orgasmic phase; and fourth, the resolution phase.
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