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性行为的基本类型
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自我性刺激:
睡眠期性高潮
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可能的天生生理功能
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性梦
由英俊王子吻醒的“睡美人”和“白雪公主”的童话故事，以象征的方式，指的就是女孩的性梦。
Sexual dreams The fairy tales of “Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White”, who are kissed awake by a handsome prince, refer, in symbolic form, to the sexual dreams of young girls.
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睡眠期性高潮几乎都毫不例外地伴有性梦，尤其在男性更甚。如果他们性成熟了，也会射精，也就是说会有“梦遗”（wet
dream）。这些性梦也许会描绘成一些异乎寻常和违背禁忌的行为，诸如与近亲属、儿童或动物发生性交，有群交、裸露癖（exhibitionism）以及个体在清醒时绝不会思忖的其它行为。不管怎样，我们正常的生理抑制能力和习得的控制能力在睡眠期间不太可能起到作用，而且我们许多无意识的愿望因而会以一种无害和象征的方式在睡梦中“付诸行动”。这种没有意识抑制的状况同样可以用来说明另一种现象：许多人（尤其女性）在睡眠中达到性高潮比在清醒中达到性高潮要快。
现今，宗教和医学对待这种睡梦体验的态度一般说来非常宽宏大量了。一些宗教和医学根本就不再对此有所考虑，或者只有当有人有意识地计划实施、欢迎和欣赏性梦的时候，才认为是有罪的。甚至，人们现在普遍认为睡眠期性高潮是必须的和健康的，而且还认为它对性节制甚至能够起到补偿作用。不过，这种普遍认为的假设似乎是错误的。例如，按照金西的研究结果，每周突然失去数次性交高潮机会的妇女每年在睡眠中的性高潮只有为数不多的几次。事实上，对于一些妇女，只有当她们同样有更多主动的性高潮时[1]，她们的睡眠期性高潮数量才会增加。简而言之，睡眠期性高潮是人体可能存在的先天的生理功能，但并不是在意识状态下性活动的替代现象。
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Basic Types of Sexual Behavior |
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Sexual Self-stimulation: Orgasm During
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Orgasms during sleep are almost always accompanied by sexual dreams, especially in males. If they are sexually mature, they will also ejaculate semen, i.e. have “wet dream”. These dreams may depict unusual and forbidden behavior, such as sexual intercourse with close relatives, children or animals, group sex, exhibitionism, and many other activities that the individual would never contemplate in his waking hours. However, during sleep our normal inhibitions and learned controls are much less effective, and many of our unconscious wishes may thus be acted out in a harmless, symbolic fashion. The lack of conscious restraints also accounts for another phenomenon: Many people (particularly women) reach orgasm much faster in their sleep than while they are awake.
Today, the religious and medical attitudes toward such experiences are generally very lenient. Some have stopped being concerned about them at all or consider them sinful only if they are somehow consciously planned, welcomed, or enjoyed. Indeed, there is now a widespread belief that orgasms during sleep are necessary and healthy, and that they can even provide a "natural" compensation for sexual abstinence. However, this popular assumption seems to be false. For instance, according to Kinsey's findings, women who suddenly lost the opportunity for several coital orgasms per week had only a few more orgasms in their sleep per year. As a matter of fact, for some women the number of involuntary orgasms increased only when they also had more voluntary orgasms. In short,
an orgasm during sleep is a possible natural function of the human body, but it is no substitute for conscious sexual activity. |
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