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- Kaplan's tri-phasic model
- A model that, unlike Masters and Johnson's model, divides sexual response
into three phases: desire, excitement, and orgasm.
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- Kaposi's sarcoma
- A formerly rare cancer of the blood vessels that is now common as one of
the opportunistic infections that strike people with AIDS; it appears as
lesions on the skin.
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- Kegel exercises
- A set of exercises designed to strengthen and give voluntary control over
the muscles surrounding the genitals (known as the pubococcygeus muscles)
and thereby increase sexual pleasure and awareness.
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- Klinefelter syndrome
- A genetic condition in which a male has extra X chromosomes, thereby
causing the development of female secondary sex characteristics. It is
widely believed that Joan of Ark was a "Klinefelter male."
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- klismaphilia
- A sexual variation in which the person derives sexual excitement from
giving or receiving enemas.
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- kleptophilia
- A sexual variation in which the person derives sexual excitement from
stealing.
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- koro
- A Japanese form of psychopathology referring to the delusion that one's
penis is shrinking into one's body.
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