From: BPS South West Announcements

How Sexual Desire Works?
Dr Frederick Toates

Wednesday 25 February 2015
St Olaves Hotel, Mary Arches Street, Exeter, EX4 3AZ (Their website is: http://www.olaves.co.uk/business-meetings.php)
6.00pm - 8.00pm (6.30pm start)

The range of sexual desires and behaviour is vast (e.g. fetishes, voyeurism, exhibitionism, pornography, addictive and violent desire). Trying to understand this can be daunting. This talk will argue that considerable insight can be gained by seeing how a few underlying component processes that are features of ‘normal desire’ can get out of normal alignment and contribute to such deviations from normal. The role of dopamine, learning and arousal will be discussed.

Frederick Toates is an experimental psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Biological Psychology at the Open University, where he has held an academic position for the last 36 years. In addition to his British-based teaching, he has taught undergraduate classes in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Romania, Moldova and the USA. An author of 12 books, his latest is entitled ‘How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in September of this year. His book ‘Biological Psychology’ is widely used for teaching undergraduates in many universities. His research concerns motivation, what moves us into action.

These are free events and open to everyone including BPS members, students and the General Public. There is no booking requirement.

This event is free to attend and is being financially supported by the Society’s South West of England Branch, who has invested in the event for the benefit of their members.

Any enquiries please email Chris Dack at chrisdack@blueyonder.co.uk or call 07877 011132 or email Madeleine Tremblett at m.tremblett@hotmail.co.uk.

For details of other event please go to the South West Branch website

www.bps.org.uk/Sweb