In all species, sexual behavior is directed by a complex interplay between steroid hormone actions in the brain that give rise to sexual arousability and experience with sexual reward that gives rise to expectations of competent sexual activity, including sexual arousal, desire, and performance. Sexual experience allows animals to form instrumental and Pavlovian associations that predict sexual...

background: sexual practices as an important aspect of reproductive health have many physical and psychological effects on people’s lives, there is limited evidence on such practices and their pattern among iranian women. hence we aimed to determine different types of sexual practices among 19-45 year old married iranian women. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 married...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of project respect in reducing sexual risk behaviors of male to female transgender patients. methods: in an interventional, quasi-experimental and case-control study, 30 transgenderpatients (male to female) with high-risk sexual behaviors were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. transgender...

this study aims at investigating the effectiveness of nutritional supplements containing vitamins, minerals, and ammonia on the sexual and breeding behaviors in ghezel sheep. to this end, 28 three and half-year old ewes (50±3 kilograms) with the record of giving birth to two lambs and 4 three-year old (90±3.5 kilograms) rams were used. the ewes were divided into two groups of a (i.e., treatment...

Sexual behavior involves motivational processes. Findings from both animal models and neuroimaging in humans suggest that the recruitment of neural motor networks is an integral part of the sexual response. However, no study so far has directly linked sexual motivation to physiologically measurable changes in cerebral motor systems in humans. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation in hetero- a...

this study aims to investigate the effect of xylopia aethiopica on the sexual behavior of adult male rats. fort eight adult male wistar rats were used for the study. they were randomly divided into four groups of 6 animals each: group 1 was control, while groups 2, 3 and 4 were test groups treated daily with 0.5, 2 and 10 mg/kg body weight respectively of hydro-methanolic fruit extract of xylop...

background: despite cultural and religious prohibitions against premarital heterosexual relationships and intimacy, some recent evidence suggests some rise in premarital heterosexual interactions and relationships among young people. on the other hand, although hiv in iran is a concentrated epidemic and mainly reported among high risk groups such as injecting drug users (idus), but there are ev...

abstract background: women’s sexual self‑esteem is one of the most important factors that affect women’s sexual satisfaction and their sexual anxiety. various aspects of sexual life are blended with the entire personality. determining the relationship between personality traits and self‑concept aspects such as sexual self‑esteem leads to better understanding of sexual behavior in people with di...