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   Introducing Dr Markie Blumer - Intro to Psychology
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   I'm here with Dr Markie Blumer, who used to be my professor for Human Sexuality
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   when I was in my undergraduate. And, I was also her teaching assistant for a
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   semester. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? I am a licenced
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   marriage and family therapist, I am also a licenced mental health counselor.
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   I'm, I'm an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and
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   Family Therapy. I began teaching about human sexuality in 1998 as an assistant
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   at the Northern Arizona University. Starting in the fall 2013, I will be an
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    associate professor at the University of Wisconsin at the stout location. And
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    that'll be in the human development family studies program and marriage and
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    family therapy program. For the last four years, I've been an assistant
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    professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. And my PhD is in human
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    development and family studies with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy
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    from Iowa State University.
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    >> So what are the stages of the human sexual response? Yeah, great question,
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    actually that depends on who stages we're talking about. So Helen Singer Kaplan
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    came up with a three phase cycle of the human sexual response. Which included
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    the desire phase, an arousal phase and then ended with an orgasm phase. Masters
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    and Johnsons came up with a four stage model. So a little bit different than
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    Kaplan's model. And their four stage model included an excitement phase, a
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    plateau phase, an orgasm phase and a resolution phase. So really the biggest
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    difference was the resolution phase. In other words, they though that there
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    were something that happened after people reach a plateau or a peek of
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    excitement through orgasm. And that was kind of this refractory period that
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    people go through. Where their bodies go back to more of a normative state
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    before arousal occurred. Both of these models are great from a western point of
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    view. there's, there's nothing wrong with these models. They, they match human
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    physiology in a pretty normative way. What's problematic about them however is
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    not everybody Is situated to understand sexuality and sexual response cycles
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    from a western point of view. In eastern cultures, there are kind of different
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    ways of conceptualizing sexuality which would be through more like tantric
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    practices. Which doesn't really have this rigid here are the phases of sexual
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    response cycle that you must complete in order for it to be successful. So,
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    really those practices are more like, you might be aroused and then you might
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    kind of take a break and then you might become aroused again. and then you
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    might engage in sexual activity with each other. But rather than having an
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    orgasm, be say the goal for one person, it might just be a goal for one of the
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    other people involved. One person might just might take their time and the
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    other person might be orgasming multiple times. And maybe one partner never
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    orgasms and, and that would be considered a great sexual encounter. So really
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    it just depends on where you are on the globe. Like I said here in Western
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    Culture we have kind of these two ways of thinking about sex.