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Sexual Response Cycle

Based on their observational research, Masters and Johnson divided the human sexual response cycle into four distinct phases that are fairly similar for most people: the excitement phase, the plateau phase, the orgasm phase, and the resolution phase. These phases map the physiological progression of arousal over time.

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