ABSTRACT
As soon as I began to understand the full scope of sexual experience revealed in the ISIS study, I began to search for a container that could be expansive enough and also non-judgmental enough to hold all of these dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. No such model existed in sexology. The Masters and Johnson sexual response cycle (1966) is based on male ejaculatory response. Helen Singer Kaplan’s model of desire and desire disorders (1979) is focused on physiological phenomena. Rosemary Basson’s model of female sexual intimacy (2001) ties physical arousal to emotions but bypasses mental and spiritual dimensions. Even more narrowly focused are the pharmaceutical protocols, introduced increasingly since 1998 with the advent of Viagra.
