Discussion Question 1

 Due Date: Day 2 [Main forum] Post your response to the following: Consider that you are having an informative discussion with your adolescent child about sex. Your goal is to explain to your child that sexual arousal is a normal sensation attributed to the brain, neurochemicals, and sex hormones all working together. Describe, in language that a teen would understand, how the brain, neurochemicals, and sex hormones work together during sexual arousal.

 Consider, as you respond to your classmates’ posts, that the adolescent has questions about how the brain, neurochemicals and sex hormones are affecting him or her at this point in life.

Discussion Question 2

 Due Date: Day 4 [Main forum]

 Post your response to the following: Consider a couple that has been married for over ten years and is experiencing a lack of romance and sexual interest in one another. What might be some of the causes of the decrease in sexual interest? Do you think the lack of sexual interest might stem from mental causes, physical causes, or both? How might this couple use their senses to enhance and increase their sexual relationship? In your participation, choose responses described by others in class and state whether you agree or disagree with their answers and to what extent. Explain why.

CheckPoint: The Sexual Response Cycle

 Resource: Appendix B

 Due Date: Day 5 [Individual forum]

 Complete the table in appendix B with the four phases of the sexual response cycle developed by Masters and Johnson.

o Write a brief description in your own words of the male experience and a brief description of the female experience for each phase.

o Include the changes in sexual anatomy of males and females during the different stages.

 Post Appendix B as an attachment.