How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
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.