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The Role of Gonadal Hormones in the Activation of Feminine Sexual Behavior

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 7))

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For early scholars, the first questions about sexual behavior were largely ones of localization: Where does the sexual impulse come from? The poet Virgil associated the copulatory activity of cattle with the presence of the gadfly and thought that the gadfly noise or bite might cause sexual activity. In 1901, W. Heape introduced the term estrus for the recurrent periods of sexual excitement in animals, which are also called heat. (The word oïstros is the Greek name for the gadfly.)

This work was supported by NIH Grant HD 06760 to Lynwood G. Clemens and an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship to David R. Weaver.

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