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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Toates, F.M. (Frederick M.). How sexual desire works (OCoLC)881038083 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
F M Toates |
ISBN: | 9781107279292 1107279291 |
OCLC Number: | 1250354022 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 499 pages) : illustrations |
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. |
Responsibility: | Frederick Toates. |
Abstract:
Shows how the diversity of sexual desires, both normal and unusual, emerge from the interactions between underlying brain processes.
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