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The Sexual Response Cycle

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Masters and Johnson described a four-phase physiological sexual response cycle: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

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Measured physiological changes followed this sequence across their laboratory sample.

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The model describes physiology in a volunteer sample and does not describe desire, context, or variation well.

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