Figure 1.

A “Key To The Sexual Tipping Point Model” to familiarize the reader with its various graphic representations (5,7,8). (A) Depicts two pans placed on opposite sides of a Sexual Balance Scale each pan holds two interrelated weights representing all Mental (M) and Physical (P) factors, which respectively may “turn on” or “turn off” sexual response; (B) circles (O) labeled with a “+”, “−”, or “?” represent the valences of the M and P factors that impact sexual response, as well as those not yet discovered. All factors are contained within the M & P weights; (C) depicts factors as endogenous, exogenous, micro, macro, and run the gamut from physical to behavioral, cognitive, relational, and/or cultural. The Sexual Balance Scale depicting sexual response balanced “at rest” in a neutral range, which will shift based on an array of predisposing, precipitating, maintaining and contextual factors which trigger reinforce or worsen the probability a sexual disorder occurring; (D) illustrates how such responses (actually continuous and not categorical) could be described as Hot, Not, or Neutral.