*Sexual Response cycle has 4 stages:
1. Excitement
- Occurs with physical and psychologic stimulation and venous constriction.
- In women, clitoris increases in size, vaginal lubrication, nipples become erect, increase BP, HR and RR.
- In men, penile reaction, scrotal thickening, elevation of testes, and increased BP, HR and RR.
- Reached just before orgasm.
- For women: formation of orgasmic platform, increased nipple engorgement.
- In men: there's full distention of the penis.
- The discharged of accumulated sexual tension; shortest stage.
- An intense pleasure affecting the whole body, highly personal experience.
- The period during which the external and internal genital organs return to an unaroused state.
*During pregnancy, increase interest in sex, and the increased breast engorgement may result to extreme breast sensitivity during coitus.
