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Archive: UCSF's Brizendine Comments on New Study Examining Motivations for Having Sex
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin report in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior that college-aged men and women both list physical attraction as the number one motivation, among more than 230, for having sex.
For KPIX-TV's HealthWatch, UCSF neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, MD, is interviewed. Brizendine discusses relevant statistics on the subject from her best-selling book The Female Brain.
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HealthWatch, KPIX-TV (CBS), July 31, 2007