Evolution from Mammals

Heterosexual Reproductive Behavior to Human Erotic Bisexuality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12759134
AutoresS Wunsch (École Pratique des Hautes Études, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume10
Fascículo3
Páginas268-293
Data de publicação2010-08-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Bisexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1529-9716 • E-ISSN: 1529-9724
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15299716.2010.500960
OpenAlexW2151151018
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas64

What is the neurobiological dynamics of mammal and human sexuality? In rodents, mainly sexual hormones and pheromones, and secondarily sexual reflexes and reinforcement processes, would be the main innate factors at the origin of a genuine heterosexual reproductive behavior, the purpose of which is, at the favorable season, to achieve copulation permitting fecundation. It would seem that during evolution, owing to the modifications of the brain of rodents into that of Man's, the hormonal and pheromonal factors have become secondary, whereas the cognitive factors and the reinforcement processes (or reward systems) have become predominant. For these reasons, in Man, the behavior that leads to reproduction may be conceived not as an innate “reproductive behavior,” but as an acquired “erotic behavior” involving behavioral sequences of stimulation of the most erogenous body zones by a partner—no matter his sex. KEYWORDS: reproductive behaviorsexual behaviorerotic behaviorbisexualityheterosexualityreinforcementrewarderogenous zonessexualityMan

Biology · Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Mammal · Reproduction · Reproductive behavior · Reproductive success · Reproductive system · Sexual behavior · Sociology · Zoology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology · Ecology · Endocrinology