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"Support a person's request for help with unwanted or disruptive arousal by organising their account without diagnosing it." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definitions-and-instance-boundaries", "name": "Definitions and instance boundaries", "description": "Establish which meaning of sexual arousal is being used and what evidence qualifies under it.", "rationale": "Subjective, physiological, and combined definitions can identify different instances; their disagreement must remain visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "construct-and-attribution", "name": "Construct and attribution", "description": "Record the chosen definition, who uses it, and the commitments it makes.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-dependent-recognition", "name": "Definition-dependent recognition", "description": "An arousal attribution should state whether subjective excitement, bodily responsiveness, or both are required; selection of an authoritative account remains a research task.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this account define arousal through felt sexual excitement, physiological response, or a specified combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "definition-dependent-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Which person, research tradition, instrument, or reference work supplies that definition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "definition-dependent-recognition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-sexual-constructs", "name": "Neighbouring sexual constructs", "description": "Separate arousal from desire, general activation, behaviour, and orgasm.", "findings": [ { "id": "independent-construct-evidence", "name": "Independent construct evidence", "description": "Evidence of wanting, acting, or climaxing should not silently substitute for evidence of the arousal dimension being modelled.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports the interpretation of this experience or response as sexual arousal rather than general bodily activation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": 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appropriately timed bodily observations and subjective reports agree, diverge, or leave the relationship indeterminate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-physiological-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-dynamics-and-context", "name": "Episode dynamics and context", "description": "Describe how arousal develops and changes within its circumstances.", "rationale": "Arousal is a changing state whose timing and context affect the meaning of an observation.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-course-and-resolution", "name": "Onset, course, and resolution", "description": "Locate observations within an episode without imposing a mandatory sequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "nonmandatory-episode-trajectory", "name": "Nonmandatory episode trajectory", "description": "Record emergence, fluctuation, persistence, and resolution without requiring progression to sexual activity or orgasm.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did the reported or measured response begin, change, and end, 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"context-without-assumed-causation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would distinguish an eliciting influence from coincidence, changed attention, or a measurement effect?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "context-without-assumed-causation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wantedness-distress-and-support", "name": "Wantedness, distress, and support", "description": "Describe how the person evaluates the arousal and whether it creates a support need.", "rationale": "The practical significance of arousal depends on wantedness, distress, and interference as well as intensity.", "layers": [ { "id": "pleasure-and-wantedness", "name": "Pleasure and wantedness", "description": "Keep sensory or emotional valence separate from wanting the state or wanting an activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-evaluations", "name": "Separate evaluations", "description": "Allow an episode to be pleasant, unpleasant, mixed, wanted, or unwanted in combinations described by the person.", "questions": [ { "text": "How 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{ "text": "What assistance does the person request, and does fulfilling it require a separate clinical assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "person-defined-support-need-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-privacy-and-inference-limits", "name": "Consent, privacy, and inference limits", "description": "Constrain what agents may conclude or do using arousal information.", "rationale": "Arousal evidence is sensitive and does not establish permission, identity, or enduring preference.", "layers": [ { "id": "arousal-and-authorisation", "name": "Arousal and authorisation", "description": "Keep recognition of a state separate from permission for an action.", "findings": [ { "id": "consent-requires-separate-evidence", "name": "Consent requires separate evidence", "description": "Neither bodily response nor reported sexual excitement authorises sexual activity or substitutes for separately established consent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What independently established consent, if any, applies to the proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "consent-requires-separate-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is anyone treating arousal, pleasure, silence, or participation as a substitute for that consent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consent-requires-separate-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensitive-data-and-attribution", "name": "Sensitive data and attribution", "description": "Limit collection and interpretation to the authorised purpose and the strength of the evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimal-purpose-bound-recording", "name": "Minimal purpose-bound recording", "description": "Record only arousal information needed for the authorised task, preserve its provenance, and avoid deriving identity or lasting preferences from an episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which arousal details are necessary for the task, and what permission governs their collection, retention, and sharing?", "kind": "action", "id": "minimal-purpose-bound-recording-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a sexual arousal sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a sexual arousal from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a sexual arousal passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a sexual arousal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a sexual arousal, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sexual arousal is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a sexual arousal proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a sexual arousal, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a sexual arousal and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a sexual arousal consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a sexual arousal takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What sexual arousal is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of sexual arousal are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is sexual arousal operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of sexual arousal and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of sexual arousal?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as sexual arousal?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a sexual arousal came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a sexual arousal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a sexual arousal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sexual arousal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a sexual arousal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a sexual arousal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }