Research has extensively detailed motor patterns in animal sexual behavior, but less is known about the motivational patterns crucial in human sexual behavior.

“We know so much more about the circuits that are involved in the motor behaviors because they're relatively easy to trace and relatively easy to manipulate and relatively easy to to study. We know lots about the motor patterns in animals. We know a lot less about the motivational patterns in animals which in human sexual behavior is I mean in many ways that's the whole show you know that's that's really what's uh and and we don't really have good animal models of of libido right”