How Sexual Desire Works

The Enigmatic Urge

AvFrederick Toates

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

There are countless books on sex and an endless fascination with the subject. Varieties and vagaries of sexual desire have long been documented, but there has been little engagement with cutting-edge scientific research to uncover the biological and psychological bases of sexual desire. Here, Frederick Toates uses the insights of modern science to show how a wide range of desire-related phenomena - fantasy, novelty-seeking, sexual addiction, sex-drug interactions, fetishes, voyeurism, and sexual violence and killing - start to make sense. For example, the role of the brain's neurochemical dopamine can now be much better understood in terms of wanting, and a distinction between wanting and liking has been established. Also, an understanding of the layered organization of the brain, sometimes described as hierarchical, can be used to explain temptation and conflict. This is a fascinating book with great social relevance to society and its problems with sexuality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-09-18
Mått:153 x 227 x 27 mm
Vikt:700 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:500
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107688049
Utmärkelser:PROSE Award for Psychology 2015

Utforska kategorier

Biologisk psykologi och neuropsykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

'In this fine book Toates gives a lively tour of the psychology behind 'how sexual desire works'. As a pioneer in motivation theory himself, Toates is an ideal guide into how incentive motivation processes work to produce sexual desires. Beyond psychology, he leads the reader on forays into neuroscience, and includes many excellent quotations as case samples, all to help put the psychology of human sexual desire into better perspective. This is a highly readable and illuminating book.' Kent Berridge, University of Michigan

Innehållsförteckning

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.