Publications

The non-aromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT) facilitates sexual behavior in ovariectomized female rats primed with estradiol

It is still unclear whether Testosterone (T) increases sexual desire through a stimulation of the androgen receptor in relevant brain …
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Fos expression is increased in oxytocin neurons of female rats with a sexually conditioned mate preference for an individual male rat

Evidence suggests an important role of Pavlovian learning in sexual partner selection. Female rats that experience paced copulation …
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Effects of ovarian hormones on the emission of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations during distributed clitoral stimulation in the rat

Fifty-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are emitted by adult rats during appetitive phases of behavior in response to stimuli thought …
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Conditioning of Sexual Interests and Paraphilias in Humans Is Difficult to See, Virtually Impossible to Test, and Probably Exactly How It Happens: A Comment on Hsu and Bailey (2020)

While reading Hsu and Bailey’s (2020) reply to Grey (2020) about the role of conditioning explanations for sexual interests, two old …
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Behavior is the ultimate arbiter: An alternative explanation for the inhibitory effect of fluoxetine on the ovulatory homolog model of orgasm in rabbits

Pavlicev et al.(1) offer an experimental test of the ovulatory homolog model of female orgasm in rabbits. While we appreciate the …
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Differential disruption of conditioned ejaculatory preference in the male rat based on different sensory modalities by micro-infusions of naloxone to the medial preoptic area or ventral tegmental area

Male rats trained to associate a neutral odor or rodent jacket on a female with their post-ejaculatory reward state display a …
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The whole versus the sum of some of the parts: toward resolving the apparent controversy of clitoral versus vaginal orgasms

The nature of a woman’s orgasm has been a source of scientific, political, and cultural debate for over a century. Since the Victorian …
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