Critique of a hypothesis of dominance and sexual behavior.
The author critically evaluates the article "Dominance and Sexual Behavior: A Hypothesis," which appeared in this journal last year and hypothesized that "male dominance facilitates male-female copulatory behavior while female dominance inhibits it." He concludes that such unitary-cause hypotheses of complex behaviors may be reductionistic and therefore less helpful than intended.
D000818:Animals; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D002657:Child Development; D003075:Coitus; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012107:Research Design; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012930:Social Dominance; D013609:Taboo; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000209:etiology