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emphasizes the importance of experiments conducted by Raul Paredes:
    Wallen, K., & Rupp, H. A. (2010). Women’s interest in visual sexual stimuli varies with menstrual cycle phase at first exposure and predicts later interest. Hormones and Behavior , 57 , 263–268.
    Rupp, H. A., & Wallen, K. (2007). Sex differences in viewing sexual stimuli: an eye-tracking study in men and women. Hormones and Behavior , 51 , 524–533.
    Wallen, K. (2000). Risky business: social context and hormonal modulation of primate sexual desire. In K. Wallen & J. Schneider (Eds.), Reproduction in context: social and environmental influences on reproductive physiology and behavior (pp. 289–323). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Wallen, K. (1990). Desire and ability: hormones and the regulation of female sexual behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 14 , 233–241.
    Wallen, K. (1982). Influence of female hormonal state on rhesus sexual behavior varies with space for social interaction. Science , 217 , 375–377.
    Pfaus, J. G., Kippin, T. E., Coria-Avila, G. A., Gelez, H., Afonso, V. M., Ismail, N., & Parada, M. (2012). Who, what, where, when (and maybe even why): how the experience of sexual reward connects sexual desire, preference, and performance. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 41 , 31–62.
    Georgiadis, J. R., Kringelbach, M. L., & Pfaus, J. G. (2012). Sex for fun: a synthesis of human an animal neurobiology. Nature Reviews Urology , 9 , 486–498.
    Pfaus, J. G., Wilkins, M. F., DiPietro, N., Benibgui, M., Toledano, R., Rowe, A., & Crouch, M. C. (2010). Inhibitory and disinhibitory effects of psychomotor stimulants and depressants on the sexual behavior of male and female rats. Hormones and Behavior , 58 , 163–176.
    Pfaus, J. G. (2009). Pathways of sexual desire. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 6 , 1506–1533.
    Pfaus, J. G., Giuliano, Francois, & Gelez, H. (2007). Bremelanotide: an overview of preclinical CNS effects on female sexual function. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 4 , 269–279.
    Martinez, I., & Paredes, R. G. (2001). Only self-paced mating is rewarding in rats of both sexes. Hormones and Behavior , 40 , 510–517.
    Paredes, R. G., & Vasquez, B. (1999). What do female rats like about sex? Paced mating. Behavioural Brain Research , 105 , 117–127.
    The narcissistic element in female desire, the prevalence of rape fantasies, as well as other subjects that come up in chapters five and six are explored in:
    Sims, K. E., & Meana, M. (2010). Why did passion wane? A qualitative study of married women’s attributions for declines in sexual desire. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy , 36 , 360–380.
    Lykins, A. D., Meana, M., & Strauss G. P. (2008). Sex differences in visual attention to erotic and non-erotic stimuli. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 37 , 219–228.
    Young-Bruehl, E. (Ed.) (1990). Freud on women: a reader . New York: W. W. Norton.
    Klein, M. (1975). Envy and gratitude and other works, 1946–1963 . New York: Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence.
    Critelli, J. W., & Bivona, J. M. (2008). Women’s erotic rape fantasies: an evaluation of theory and research. Journal of Sex Research , 1 , 57–70.
    Meston, C. M., & Frohlich, P. F. (2003). Love at first fright: partner salience moderates roller-coaster induced excitation transfer. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 32 , 537–544.
    Fedoroff, J. P., Fishell, A., & Fedoroff, B. (1999). A case series of women evaluated for paraphilic disorders. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality , 8 , 127–140.
    My discussion of monogamy in chapter seven focuses partly on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , and at the time of my writing the current DSM was the Fourth Edition, Text Revision, Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association. The Fifth Edition (the DSM-V ) is due to be published in 2013. To fully understand the magnitude of the changes regarding female desire that are being incorporated in this upcoming volume, it would be necessary to study editions going back at least as far as the DSM-III of 1980. But one representative detail is the substitution, in the new version, of the phrase “sexual interest” for the phrase “sexual desire.” In this and other ways, Basson’s vision of cognitive, unlustful decisions, as opposed to erotic drive, is being codified as the female norm. For a complete discussion of the DSM-V language and the rationale behind it, read Brotto, L. A. (2010). The DSM diagnostic criteria for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women.