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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: �Agmo, Anders
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.