How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of 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.