Functional and dysfunctional sexual behavior : a synthesis of neuroscience and comparative psychology /
This book explores the full consequences of the dissociation between sexual behaviors and reproduction. Among the themes covered is the difference between the stereotyped sexual behaviors in non-human mammals and the astounding variety of human sexual behaviors. The role of learning in shaping sexua...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Academic,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface.
- Introduction.
- On the purpose of sex and some notes on scientific explanations.
- An incentive motivational framework and the description of sexual behaviours.
- The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: Non-human mammals.
- The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: The human.
- Endocrine control of sexual behavior.
- Neural control of sexual behavior.
- Learning and sex: Sexual activity as reinforcement and reward.
- Preference for same sex partners: Basic concepts and its occurrence in non-human mammals.
- Preference for same sex partners in the human.
- Some comments on the concepts of normal or functional sexual behavior.
- Hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
- Hyperactive sexual desire and the paraphilias.
- On the omissions.