Frederick Toates

How Sexual Desire Works

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the diversity of sexual desires, both normal and unusual, emerge from the interactions between underlying brain processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 887g
• ISBN-13: 9781107050013
• ISBN-10: 1107050014
• Artikelnr.: 40912033

Autorenporträt

Frederick Toates is Emeritus Professor of Biological Psychology at The Open University and Vice-President of the Open University Psychology Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is enigmatic about sexual desire?
2. Explaining desire: multiple perspectives
3. Sexual desire in a broad context
4. An incentive-based model
5. Sex and levels of organization
6. Sexual attraction
7. Shades of desire from simple to complex
8. Details of the brain and desire
9. Arousal
10. The consequences of sexual behaviour and associated expectations
11. Sexual familiarity and novelty
12. Inhibition, conflict and temptation
13. How did sexual desire get here?
14. Setting the trajectory: link to adult sexuality
15. Sexual desire in interaction
16. Representations of sex
17. Sexual addiction
18. Variations in desire: general principles
19. Some forms of desire at the fringes
20. The toxic fusion: violence and sexual desire
21. Sexually associated (serial) murder
22. Concluding remarks.