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UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

Unit 1: PHYSICAL SELF: THE BEAUTIFUL ME

Nervous system factors

• The nervous system plays a significant role during sexual response.

• The autonomic system is involved in controlling the involuntary responses.
• The efferent cerebrospinal nerves transmit the sensory messages to the brain to create
stimulus and later initiating a sexual response.
• The brain will interpret the sensory message and dictate what will be the immediate and
appropriate response of the body.
• The muscles contract in response to the signal coming from the motor nerve fibers while
glad secretes their respective product. So, sexual response is dependent the activity of
the nervous System.

Sexual problems

• These may be classified as physiological, psychological and social in origin.

• Physiological problems are the least among the three categories. Small number of people
suffering from diseases due to abnormal development of the genitalia or that part of the
neurophysiology controlling sexual response.
Example: vaginal infection, retroverted uteri, prostatitis, adrenal tumors, diabetes,
senile changes of the vagina and cardiovascular problems.