Course 5
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Table 1
Table 2 Intro
Differences in Female and Male Dysfunctions
男女性功能障礙-新術語體系

男女性功能障礙的差異性
 男女的性功能障礙除了生理過程的相似性以外，還有某些重要的差別。最近數年來，女權主義學者已經提出供參考的女性性問題新視野。這個文獻把女性性問題置於更為廣泛的個人關係和社會-文化影響的背景下考察。這些因素對女性性功能發揮所起到的影響比對男性的影響要深得多。甚至於以新女權主義的觀點看來，恰恰是這些術語“功能”和“功能障礙”始終是可疑的，因為這些術語似乎使性過於簡單化，並且把性滿足降低為一個只是技術效率的問題。為了擴展“機能”這個狹隘的概念，這些女權主義學者因此已經新提出了一個女性性不滿足及其原因的分類：
 
  1. 由於社會-文化、政治或經濟因素導致的性障礙，
  2. 與性伴和人際關係有關的性障礙，
  3. 由於心理因素導致的性障礙，
  4. 由於醫源性因素導致的性障礙。

 

就像這個分類系統所顯示的那樣，所提出的性障礙可能涉及到比現在慣常的性治療所限定的要多。這個分類也可能要求個體和公眾的教育，也需要極大的社會變革。但是，由於本導論性課程的局限性，以下的內容將限定在性功能障礙的生理功能方面。
Female and Male Sexual Dysfunctions -A New Terminology

Differences in Female and Male Dysfunctions
In spite of the physiological similarities of male and female sexual dysfunctions, there are some important differences. In recent years, feminist researchers have offered a new view of women’s sexual problems. It sees these problems in the wider context of personal relationships and socio-cultural influences. These factors play a much greater role in female than in male sexual functioning. Indeed, in the new feminist view, the very words “function” and “dysfunction” are already suspect, since they seem to oversimplify the issues and to reduce sexual fulfillment to a question of mere technical efficiency. In order to broaden the narrow concept of “functioning”, these reseachers have therefore proposed a new classification of female sexual discontents and dissatisfactions:
  1. Sexual problems due to socio-cultural, political, or economic factors,
  2. Sexual problems relating to partner and relationship,
  3. Sexual problems due to psychological factors,
  4. Sexual problems due to medical factors.
As this classification shows, addressing the problems may involve more than the now customary sex therapy. It may also require individual and public education as well as a number of social reforms. However, for the limited purposes of this introductory course, the following sections restrict themselves to the physiological aspects of sexual dysfunctions.
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