Sex steroids (in particular, testosterone and its metabolite, estradiol) have a lifelong role in
establishing and maintaining gender-dimorphic behavioral aspects. In particular, prenatal …

The increase in female life expectancy during the past century has meant that women now
live one-third of their lives beyond cessation of their ovarian function. This evolution in …

Publisher Summary This chapter offers a brief overview of several key issues related to the
display of male and female sexual behavior. Attraction, motivation, and performance are the …

Complex correlations between women's sexual function and psychosexual variables
confound the identification of any etiological role for estrogen and androgen deficiencies in …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses whether animal models of sexual behavior are
applicable to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Development of reproductive …

Both estradiol and testosterone have been implicated as the steroid critical for modulating
women's sexual desire. By contrast, in all other female mammals only estradiol has been …

Sexuality has become an important recognized area of health. Rather than strictly providing
for reproduction, sexuality involves but is not limited to biological, psychological-social …

Publisher Summary The role of gonadal steroids in human behavior is both more complex
and more poorly delineated. This chapter examines the role of gonadal steroids in behavior …

Sexual behavior constitutes a chain of behavioral responses beginning with courtship and
leading to copulation. These responses, which are exhibited in a sexually dimorphic manner …

Models of lack of estrogen represen-tation, whether they be failure of synthesis or
insensitivity of response, have provided new, and in some respects counterintuitive, insights …