The Modification of Sexual Behavior Through Imprinting: A Rodent Model

Abstract

This edited volume addresses the biosocial dimensions of adult human sexual behavior with children and adolescents. Such behavior would seem to have a deleterious effect on genetic fitness in that such behavior, and the assumed underlying sexual attraction that motivates it, seems to have no direct procreative benefit. Although the lack of direct procreative benefit does not preclude yet to be understood long-term fitness gains for the adult, the child, or the adolescent, the basis by which the attraction develops and the behavior ensues requires investigation in its own right.