How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge
- Title
- How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge / Frederick Toates.
- Published by
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- ©2014
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 499 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 14-7993
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-486) and index.
- Author
- Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.)
- Title
- How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge / Frederick Toates.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Copyright date
- ©2014
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-486) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781107688049 (Paperback)
- 1107688043 (Paperback)
- 9781107050013 (Hardback)
- 1107050014 (Hardback)
- Research call number
- JFE 14-7993