How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge / Frederick Toates, the Open University, United Kingdom.

  • Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.)
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2014]

Physical description

xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 456-486) and index.

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.

Language note

Text in English.

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    History of Medicine
    TPB /TOA
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1107050014
  • 1107688043
  • 9781107050013
  • 9781107688049