"Sexual receptivity" refers to a state when an individual is physically and emotionally open to engaging in sexual activities. It means a person is interested and willing to participate in sexual behavior, showing signs of being ready for intimacy.
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DARPP - 32, a dopamine - and adenosine 3 ′, 5 ′ - monophosphate (cAMP)-- regulated phosphoprotein (32 kilodaltons in size), is an obligate intermediate in progesterone (P)-- facilitated
sexual receptivity in female rats and mice.
DARPP - 32 activation is thus an obligatory step in progestin receptor regulation
of sexual receptivity in rats and mice.
This supportive behavior by sexually eager males conferred a selective advantage on protohuman females
whose sexual receptivity was independent of fertility cycles.
The facilitative effect of P
on sexual receptivity in female rats was blocked by antisense oligonucleotides to DARPP - 32.
Homozygous mice carrying a null mutation for the DARPP - 32 gene exhibited minimal levels of P - facilitated
sexual receptivity when compared to their wild - type littermates.
The mating season brings about violent tendencies in adult males, who regularly kill cubs to
trigger sexual receptivity in mothers who would otherwise come into heat only after raising their cubs to independence.
Researchers have recently discovered that this preference exists because men perceive red as indicating
greater sexual receptivity in women.
For example, you know that men find women more attractive in red because red is seen as an indication of
more sexual receptivity.
She watched young males grow up and leave their families, young females enter their first estrus (the period
of sexual receptivity) and elders in their 50s wander off to die.
These results are consistent with evolutionary perspectives and research indicating female primates display red on their bodies to
indicate sexual receptivity.
The chemical scent - messages in a dog's urine tell other dogs just about everything they need to know: where the marking dog hangs out, how long it's been since he's been around, and (in the case of a female)
sexual receptivity.