Sex and sociability in rats |
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Authors: | Lloyd Sloan Bibb Latané |
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Affiliation: | Ohio State University USA |
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Abstract: | Three experiments explored the effects of sexual motivation and the opportunity for sexual contact on social attraction in rats. Rats were no more gregarious in cross-sex than in same-sex pairings. Increased male sexual experience and hormonally induced female receptivity both led to increased sexual activity but had no effect on social behavior. Males housed with continuously receptive females showed signs of sexual exhaustion but were as gregarious as males housed alone or with males. It appears that social attraction in rats is not motivated primarily by sexual desires, either direct or sublimated. |
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Keywords: | Request reprints from B. Latané 404-C West 17th Ave. Columbus Ohio 43210. |
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