Incentive Motivation Model: Understanding Sexual Motivation
The incentive motivation model explains how rewards, cues, expectations, and experiences influence human motivation and sexual desire.
Spontaneous Desire: Unprompted Sexual Interest and Motivation
Spontaneous desire is sexual interest that appears before deliberate stimulation or intimate activity begins, sometimes without an obvious trigger.
Desire Phase: Sexual Interest, Motivation, and Responsive Desire
The desire phase is the part of sexual response involving interest, motivation, fantasy, attraction, or openness to sexual activity.
Sexual Incentive: Erotic Cues, Motivation, Reward, and Consent
Sexual incentive is a cue, opportunity, or expected reward that may increase sexual interest, desire, motivation, or willingness to pursue intimacy.
Sexual Motivation: Desire, Behavior, Relationships, and Consent
Sexual motivation is the combination of biological, emotional, psychological, relational, and social factors that influence interest in sexual activity.