The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So when we hear that the nucleus accumbens is activated, that almost always means that dopamine has been released in that area and other areas of the brain body, and we can consider dopamine central to the desire for, pursuit of, an act of sex.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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my understanding is that dopamine is involved in the desire response. We will distinguish desire, the psychological arousal, from genital arousal, physical arousal