Author(s): Teichroeb JA; Fox SA; Samartino S; Wikberg EC; Sicotte P;

Rare behaviors are often missing from published papers, hampering phylogenetic analyses. Here, we report, for the first time, masturbation and same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in both male and female black-and-white colobus monkeys. We recorded these behaviors during 32 months of observation (1573 h of focal animal sampling) on Colobus vellerosus collected ...

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Author(s): Pallikaras V; Mac Cionnaith CE; Rosales VCF; Arvanitogiannis A; Pfaus JG;

Rationale: Exposure to rewards can alter behavioral reactivity to them. For example, stimulants sensitize locomotor activation, whereas sexual experience sensitizes copulatory behaviors. Moreover, rewards can cross-sensitize one another. Although stimulants are known to cross-sensitize locomotor effects, the evidence for cross-sensitization between stimul ...

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Author(s): Mac Cionnaith CE, Lemay A, Gomez-Perales EL, Robert G, Cernik R, Brake W, Pfaus JG

Horm Behav. 2019 Oct 21;:104612 Authors: Mac Cionnaith CE, Lemay A, Gomez-Perales EL, Robert G, Cernik R, Brake W, Pfaus JG

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Author(s): Persson TJ; Pfaus JG; Ryder AG;

Research has found that non-monosexual women report worse mental health than their heterosexual and lesbian counterparts. The reasons for these mental health discrepancies are unclear. This study investigated whether higher levels of child abuse and risky sexual behavior, and lower levels of sexual orientation disclosure, may help explain elevated symptom ...

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