(A Version of) The Sexual Response Cycle (Patreon)

Hey. Hey buddy. Did you know there's more to having sex than chasing an orgasm? 

This week I do my best to illustrate the different stages that a person's mind and body can go through when it's getting all turned on and horned up!

I took some liberty with my listing of the sexual response stages, as I note in the comic. Most commonly, when people talk about the SRC, they’re referring to the classic Masters and Johnson’s four phase model, which just includes Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, and Resolution. But then Kaplan came along in the 1970s and was like ‘Whoah, whoah, you guys left out step one: DESIRE. And also I think we can condense this a bit?’ so she reshuffled some stuff around and developed the three phase Triphasic model, which starts with Desire, proceeds to Excitement, and then concludes with Resolution. I think of OJST comics as appetizers, a small snack to wet your appetite before you fill up on the main course– so if the various stages of sexual response that I mashed together in today’s strip interest you, I hope you’ll be inspired to do some more research on them yourself!