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The human sexual response has been divided into four phases by Masters and Johnson on the basis of identifiable and measurable responses during sexual activity. The first phase is excitement, followed sequentially by the plateau, orgasmic, and resolution phases. The derivation of these phases has been based on interviewing and measuring the behavioral and physiological accompaniments of the human sexual response in hundreds of subjects (1).
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Miller, N.S. (1991). The Pharmacology of Alcohol and Drugs and Sexual Responsivity. In: The Pharmacology of Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse and Addiction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3044-1_8
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