Title:
How Sexual Desire Works : the Enigmatic Urge / Frederick Toates The Open University, United Kingdom.
Author:
Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.), author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
BF692 .T63 2014
Abstract:
Shows how the diversity of sexual desires, both normal and unusual, emerge from the interactions between underlying brain processes.
Electronic Access:
Available to Stanford-affiliated users.
ISBN:
9781107688049
9781107050013
Physical Description:
xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
What is enigmatic about sexual desire? -- Explaining desire: multiple perspectives -- Sexual desire in a broad context -- An incentive-based model -- Sex and levels of organization -- Sexual attraction -- Shades of desire from simple to complex -- Details of the brain and desire -- Arousal -- The consequences of sexual behaviour and associated expectations -- Sexual familiarity and novelty -- Inhibition, conflict and temptation -- How did sexual desire get here? -- Setting the trajectory: link to adult sexuality -- Sexual desire in interaction -- Representations of sex -- Sexual addiction -- Variations in desire: general principles -- Some forms of desire at the fringes -- The toxic fusion: violence and sexual desire -- Sexually associated (serial) murder.
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