This is the only available comprehensive monograph on
interrelations and interdependencies between agonistic and sexual
behaviors. Integrating theory and research from biology,
anthropology, neurophysiology, endocrinology, psychophysiology, and
psychology, this book focuses on the mechanisms that govern the
mutual influences between sexuality and aggression in behavior
sequences and especially in admixtures of aggressive-sexual
behaviors.
This book places human agonistic and sexual behaviors into an
evolutionary context. It offers a "Weltbild" of human
aggressive-sexual behaviors by tracing their biological and
developmental origins and examines the plasticity and
manipulability of connections between agonistic and sexual
behaviors. Strategies for the maximization of sexual pleasures are
elaborated, and intervention treatments--aiming at the control of
violent behaviors--are considered. Coercive sexuality is given
special attention. Prevalent motive ascriptions to rape are called
into question and the motivation that dominates rape is
reinterpreted in the context of pleasure maximization.
This second edition brings the coverage of pertinent research up
to date. It advances the exploration of aggressive-sexual behaviors
by further integrating the research contributions from various
disciplines, and by refining and unifying theory capable of
explaining the behavioral phenomena under consideration.
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Zillmann examines issues such as sexual access through aggression,
the involvement of agonistic behavior within sexuality,
sex-aggression fusion, the consequences of anticipatory imagination
concerning sexuality, and aspects of libido loss due to excitatory
habituation. This book also:
* traces connection between sexuality and aggression in nonhuman
species, especially in nonhuman primates,
* subjects human behavior to comparative and evolutionary
analysis,
* examines connectedness in neurological and endocrinological
terms,
* details both central and autonomic commonalities between sexual
and aggressive behaviors,
* outlines sexual dimorphism and chromosomal-endocrine
aberrations,
* pays special attention to adrenal commonalities in sexual and
aggressive behaviors and the fusion of these behaviors, and
* examines aggressive-sexual connectedness in the analysis of
motivation and emotion.
Zillmann finally proposes new explanations for the numerous
documented associations between sexuality and aggression. These
proposals combine biological, neuroendocrine, autonomic, and
cognitive aspects of aggressive and sexual behaviors. A trichotomy
of excitatory interdependencies is developed for fight, flight, and
coition. In the nomenclature of emotion, this trichotomy concerns
the interdependencies between aggressiveness, fear, and sexual
impulsion. A considerable amount of research evidence is aggregated
in support of these interdependencies.
The author ultimately examines the exploitation of the existing
connections between sexual and aggressive behaviors, especially the
exploitation that serves the enhancement of sexual pleasure. In
this context he arrives at novel, and perhaps distressing,
characterizations of sexual coercion. However, he also explores
sexual boredom and discusses remedies in the framework of his
theorizing. Last but not least, sexual aggression, and sexual and
aggressive behaviors independently, are placed into an evolutionary
context. Recognition and acknowledgment of the archaic nature of
many aspects of sexual and aggressive behaviors, in contrast to the
comparatively vernal development of behavior-guiding contemplation,
leads him to a unique and provocative proposal of the function of
aggression in the realm of sexuality.
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