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Table 4.

Central nervous system correlates of human sexuality and representative recent citations.

Healthy sexual function	Diverse sexualities	Physiological aspects of sexuality	Sexual pathology and dysfunction
Sexual desire [161]	Sex differences [160, 155, 52]	Menstrual cycle [136, 141]	Pelvic pain syndromes [154, 167, 137]
Arousal [185, 144, 169]	Gender Identity (cis/trans, gender dysphoria) [149, 179, 177]	Pharmacology (e.g., medications, recreational drugs, side effects) [158, 180]	Pedophilia [166, 143]
Orgasm [182, 159]	Sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, Bisexual) [149, 160, 179]	Urologic [181, 174]	Maladaptive behavior (e.g. risky sexual behavior, compulsive sexual behavior, excessive masturbation, pornography addiction) [150, 156, 170]
Sexual satisfaction [186, 183]	Sexual preferences (BDSM, kink)	Mapping genital sensory projections to the brain [23, 25, 131, 140, 144, 146]	Disorders of the nervous system (e.g. spinal cord injury) [24, 157, 182]
		Hormonal factors [163, 177, 172, 147]	Erectile dysfunction Premature ejaculation [171, 184, 168]