How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge [EPUB]

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E-Book Overview

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.

E-Book Information

  • Year: 18 Sep 2014

  • Edition: Original retail

  • Pages: 511

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 198

  • Identifier: 1107688043,978-1107688049

  • Asin: B00M75O7PU

  • Commentary: "In this eminently readable and enticing book, Fred Toates weaves a golden thread through the disarming topic of sexual desire, linking its many faces - literary, clinical and scientific - together. The implications of his analysis to our understanding of sexual problems and disorders are immense and will likely help create important paradigms for their study. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in motivation and sex, and how we are able to get what we want and like, despite living in a world full of imposed sexual values and inhibitions. A real tour de force!" Jim Pfaus, Concordia University

  • Color: 1

  • Cleaned: 1

  • Paginated: 1

  • Org File Size: 1,775,658

  • Extension: epub

  • Tags: Applied Psychology > Medical Psychology of Sexuality