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How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge
- Author
- Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.).
- Title
- How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge / Frederick Toates.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2014] ©2014
- Description
- xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Notes
- Notes in margin by book's donor, Leonor Tiefer. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- What is enigmatic about sexual desire?
- Explaining desire : multiple perspectives
- Sexual desire in a broad context
- An incentive-based model
- Sex and levels of organiztion
- Sexual attraction
- Shades of desire from simple to complex
- Details of the brain and desire
- Arousal
- The consequences of sexual behavior and associated expecations
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781107688049