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sexual cycle

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sexual cycle [′sek·shə·wəl ′sī·kəl]
(physiology)
A cycle of physiological and structural changes associated with sex; examples are the estrous cycle and the menstrual cycle.


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Men are on a much shorter twenty four hour sexual cycle than women's menstrual cycle, the main source of female energy loss.
In this sense, the massive lysis of gametes can be caused, among other factors, by unfavorable environmental conditions, thus stopping a sexual cycle, which in favorable conditions would end with spawning (Motavkine & Varaksine 1983, Dorange & LePennec 1989).
That is, anorgasmia was associated with the inability to fully experience the sexual cycle of excitement, ecstasy, and relief and to cognitively and emotionally dissociate from the environment.
 
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