ArticleSocioaffective neuroscience & psychology2016
The role of orgasm in the development and shaping of partner preferences.
Article in Socioaffective neuroscience & psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Endogenous Opioid Release After Orgasm in Man: A Combined PET/Functional MRI Study.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2023Article
- Theory of brain complexity and marital behaviors: The application of complexity science and neuroscience to explain the complexities of marital behaviors.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Raised without a father: monoparental care effects over development, sexual behavior, sexual reward, and pair bonding in prairie voles.Behavioural brain research · 2021Article
- Mind-body-spirit model for the medical management of female sexual well-being.Current sexual health reports · 2020Article
- Mating and social exposure induces an opioid-dependent conditioned place preference in male but not in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Hormones and behavior · 2018Article
- Sexual intimacy in couples is associated with longer telomere length.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2017Article
- Introductory editorial to 'Orgasm: Neurophysiological, Psychological, and Evolutionary Perspectives'.Socioaffective neuroscience & psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe effect of orgasm on the development and shaping of partner preferences may involve a catalysis of the neurochemical mechanisms of bonding. Therefore, understanding such process is relevant for neuroscience and psychology.
methodsA systematic review was carried out using the terms Orgasm, Sexual Reward, Partner Preference, Pair Bonding, Brain, Learning, Sex, Copulation.
resultsIn humans, concentrations of arousing neurotransmitters and potential bonding neurotransmitters increase during orgasm in the cerebrospinal fluid and the bloodstream. Similarly, studies in animals indicate that those neurotransmitters (noradrenaline, oxytocin, prolactin) and others (e.g. dopamine, opioids, serotonin) modulate the appetitive and consummatory phases of sexual behavior and reward. This suggests a link between the experience of orgasm/sexual reward and the neurochemical mechanisms of pair bonding. Orgasm/reward functions as an unconditioned stimulus (UCS). Some areas in the nervous system function as UCS-detection centers, which become activated during orgasm. Partner-related cues function as conditioned stimuli (CS) and are processed in CS-detector centers.
conclusionsThroughout the article, we discuss how UCS- and CS-detection centers must interact to facilitate memory consolidation and produce recognition and motivation during future social encounters.
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