Describe the following after read the scenario: a "warming up" phase, reaching a peak, and cooling down. Can we track a common pattern with clear stages during the sexual response? Compare the EPOR model with competing models. How do they differ? How are they the same? Do you think one describes the sexual response more accurately than the others?
Clearly, humans devote a significant amount of time to sexual activity with a partner when compared with animals. I propose that the reason for this is that humans have developed a brain with sufficient capacity to allow them to manipulate and extend a primitive instinct that is inherently pleasurable. There is a lot of "play" involved in human sexuality. Yes, animals also have a "dance" that leads up to the sexual response (what might be equivalent to "dating" in human beings, or "trying to impress" in the initial encounter). However, during sexual activity, humans have learned to exploit this biological drive and maximize the duration of pleasure. How? But stop to think of sex as a means to achieve orgasm. If that was all that sex was for humans, it would last about a minute (when the man is done and the woman scratches her head wondering when the party finally gets started). Yes, practice makes perfect, and experience helps us make the sexual experience a fulfilling one for both parties. But there seems to be a common pattern to the sexual experience.