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A picture of mammalian sexual behavior based on solid experimental data.

Table of Contents

Preface.
Introduction.
On the purpose of sex and some notes on scientific explanations.
An incentive motivational framework and the description of sexual behaviours.
The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: Non-human mammals.
The stimulus control of sexual incentive motivation: The human.
Endocrine control of sexual behavior.
Neural control of sexual behavior.
Learning and sex: Sexual activity as reinforcement and reward.
Preference for same sex partners: Basic concepts and its occurrence in non-human mammals.
Preference for same sex partners in the human.
Some comments on the concepts of “normal” or “functional” sexual behavior.
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Hyperactive sexual desire and the paraphilias.
On the omissions.