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Extraversion, sexual experience, and sexual emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

John Marshall Townsend
John Marshall Townsend
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-1090 jmtsu44@aol.com
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Abstract

Sex differences in motivation and emotional reactions to casual sex suggest that the links to extraversion, constraint, impulsivity-sensation seeking, and sexual behavior differ for men and women. Because both testosterone and dominance, and dominance and number of sex partners appear to correlate in men but not in women, it is plausible that testosterone is involved in the creation and maintenance of these sex differences in linkage among the behavioral subsystems involved in sexuality and extraversion.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 537
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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