| Summary: | An integrative theoretical framework and model for understanding sexual motivation arousal and behavior is presented. The framework helps in understanding the links between different component processes and their interactions, as well as the relations between different academic perspectives on understanding sexuality. It suggests that in a hierarchical structure, both excitation and inhibition of sexual motivation, arousal, and behavior act at various levels. The model describes interactions between sexual behavior and anxiety, aggression, attachment, and drug taking, and it is applied to evolutionary psychology, gender differences, sexual addiction and deviancy, and the biological bases of sexuality.
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