How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge
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.