PSY395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seminal Vesicle, Sertoli Cell, Leydig Cell
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Sexual behavior linked to rewards, motivation such as drinking when you"re thirsty. Pleasurable systems converge similar output reproduction piggy backed on pleasurable systems. Other forms of sexual behavior that has no reproductive end. Rats virgins do this more than experienced animals not so long in duration. Mount failed intromission attempt to gain access chase and intromission female runs away when the male rat mounts and ejaculates. Monkey style primates do from rear but face to face as well- chimp front facing vagina how sex is played out. Human positions during sex are experientially determined it"s about what you like in humans. Population is very variable as many sexual preferences as there are people. Why does everyone want to have sex brain activity sexual pleasure experiences activates neurochemical system in our brain bonding/intimacy. Classical conditioning associate those features with pleasure. Sex drive- motivational force how powerful that drug is.
