PSY 3108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gonadotropin, Homosociality, Menstruation

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Human sexual behaviour textbook & reading notes. Chapter 6: sexual arousal and response: sexual arousal and response influenced by many factors, hormones, brain"s capacity to create images and fantasies, emotions, sensory processes, level of intimacy between two people, etc. The role of hormones in sexual behaviour: hormones influence sexuality, sensuality, and interpersonal attraction, androgens and estrogens = sex hormones. Steroid hormones: secreted by the gonadal glands (testes and ovaries) and the adrenal, male sex hormones and female sex hormones glands. Linking hormones to a sex is misleading: both sexes produce them, males: 95% of total androgens produced by testes, 5% produced by adrenal glands. Produce 20-40 times more testosterone than females. Most important: oxytocin: oxytocin: neuropeptide in the hypothalamus that influences sexual, sex hormones in male sexual behaviour response and interpersonal attraction, love hormone , testosterone greater effect on male sexual desire (libido) than on sexual functioning. Low testosterone might mean low libido but fully capable of erection and orgasm.