From time immemorial, the norms of sexual behavior for different categories of people were divided into belonging to one or another culture, but even within the same culture, there were differences. The most common of these differences is the standard, i.e., different norms of sexual behavior for men and women.

The ideal of “eternal femininity” of bourgeois morality of the XIX century. there were arguments the woman should be gentle, beautiful, soft, affectionate, but at the same time massive and dependent, allowing the man to feel towards her strong, energetic and prosperous. These feminine qualities are still highly appreciated today, forming the core of the man’s understanding of femininity, but in the female self-awareness, new features also appeared...

Normal human psychosexual behavior is the result of the combined action of natural data and upbringing. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish the quantitative and qualitative aspects of sexuality.

The quantitative, or energy, side of sexuality is measured by the strength, duration and frequency of sexual reactions. GS Vasilchenko, giving her a system description and interpretation, calls her “the sexual constitution of the individual”, which he defines as a set of stable biological properties that are formed under the influence of hereditary factors and conditions of development in the prenatal period and early ontogeny; the sexual constitution limits the range of individual needs at a certain level of sexual activity and characterizes the individual resistance to pathogenic factors t...

Attempts to give a universal definition of sexual health were undertaken by many researchers. However, most of them were not successful. This is due to the fact that in each culture there are specific features in attitudes, perceptions and assessments of sexuality. Cultural identity should be taken into account when developing programs for health education, primary prevention of sexual disharmony, psychotherapy counseling and treatment.

One of the attempts made to determine sexual health was experts of the World Health Organization. It sounds like this:

Sexual health is a complex of somatic, emotional, intellectual and social aspects of a person’s sexual existence, positively enriching a person, increasing the communicability of a person and his ability to love.

The concept of sexual healt...

Premature psychosexual development is the early development of sexuality, which outstrips average age norms and puberty.

The cause of premature psychosexual development may be a congenital or early-childhood lesion of deep brain structures, which is manifested by a decrease in the threshold of excitability of the nerve structures that provide ejaculation and orgasm. This is the background that contributes to the consolidation of the negative effects of mental and social factors.

Premature psychosexual development can be and with some mental illnesses – the so-called psychogenically accelerated acceleration of psychosexual development. At the same time, sexual attraction is ahead of other manifestations of sexuality...

The delay in psychosexual development is manifested in the fact that the timing of the onset of sexuality lags behind the age of the child.

This may be due to biological causes, for example, lag in sexual development. One of the causes is a disruption of the endocrine system. In severe disorders, for example, with congenital agonadism (underdevelopment of the sexual glands), it is possible to have asexuality – complete loss of sexual components in the mental development of the personality. This is the most profound and difficultly corrected delay in psychosexual development.

The delay in psychosexual development can be caused by disturbances in the development of the psyche, for example, with a general lag in mental development...