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Modeling Human Sexual Motivation in Rodents: Some Caveats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Sexual behavior is activated by motivation. An overwhelming majority of experimental studies of the intricacies of sexual motivation has been performed in rodents, most of them in rats.
Olivia Le Moëne, Anders Ågmo
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Aphrodite on Orgasm and Sexual Desire in Menopausal Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

حیات, 2016
Background & Aim: Lack of orgasm during intercourse and loss of libido in menopause is very common and can reduce womenchr('39')s quality of life. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of Aphrodite on orgasm and sexual desire in ...
Simin Taavoni, Neda Nazem Ekbatani, Hamid Haghani   +2 more
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The impact of male genital self-image on depression, anxiety and sexual functions

The Aging Male
Aim This study aims to examine the relationship between male genital self-perception and sexual functioning and depression anxieties.Method The study included male patients who were referred to the andrology outpatient clinic between March 2022 and June ...
Adil Emrah Sonbahar
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Examining sexual satisfaction and pretending orgasm [PDF]

, 2014
An article in popular women’s magazine, Cosmopolitan, recently revealed a startling admission from its readers: 86% of respondents reported pretending orgasm during intercourse with a partner (Kylstra, 2011).
Twiss, Chelsea
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Bret/BRAT

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
wiley   +1 more source

Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It is widely believed that play and curiosity are key ingredients as children develop models of the world. There is also an emerging consensus that children are Bayesian learners who combine their structured prior beliefs with estimations of the likelihood of new evidence to infer the most probable model of the world.
Marc M. Andersen, Julian Kiverstein
wiley   +1 more source

A brief natural history of the orgasm

, 2019
International audienceWhy the sexual climax, in humans, results in a pleasurable experience remains an important biological question. Analysis of evolutionary traits in numerous Vertebrates suggests that orgasm evolved through three phylogenetic stages ...
Lodé, Thierry
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The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source