Temptation Movie Psychology

Temptation

The purpose of this paper is to analyze a movie using three concepts from psychology of human sexual behavior class. The movie I will analyze is Temptation. The three concepts I will apply are alcohol myopia theory, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The film Temptation discussed the confessions of a marriage counselor. The main characters in this film are Judith, who is the counselor, her husband Brice who is a pharmacist, and Harley who is a successful business man. Judith and Brice have known each other since high school, but after so many years of being together their relationship had no excitement and they would constantly do the same things without any interest. Judith completes her graduate work in psychotherapy and she often becomes upset because she is not where she wants to be. Her goal is to eventually become a marriage counselor. Judith began to work with a matchmaking company for millionaires. This is where she meets Harley, who quickly becomes attracted to her. Harley starts to give her that attention that she is not getting from her husband at home. Judith is tempted and quickly surrenders to Harley, which puts her and her marriage in jeopardy.

Hock states that alcohol myopia theory is the belief that

AIDS is a gradual failure of the immune system, leading to serious opportunistic infections, which, in turn may lead to death. In this film Judith is telling a client a story about her sister but at the end we find out that Judith was really telling her client her own story. After her risky sexual behaviors and her infidelity, Judith later found out that she had gotten HIV from Harley. With time Judith began to fall for Harley. He praised her with attention and took care of her physically, emotionally, and financially. Although he failed to tell her that he was HIV positive. With time Judith then had to take medication due to being HIV