First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in
human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being
human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological
pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of
others has become distorted.
The authors also found abnormalities in the subthalamic nucleus occur earlier than in
other brain regions, and that subthalamic nucleus nerve cells progressively degenerate as the mice age, mirroring the
human pathology of Huntington's disease.