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How does the brain play a role in sexual behaviour? Sexual behaviour has been studied in a number of different subject areas and derives from the instinct of survival through reproduction. It is often divided into two main categories: the 'developmental' and 'activational' effects (Pinel, J. P. J. 2003. P.325). The former refers to the progress from conception to full sexual development, distinguishing one as male or female. The latter is concerned with the act of copulation itself. In this essay we will consider the part that the brain has to play in this. There are three main areas of the brain that affect sexual behaviour; these are the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus and the pineal. The brains main purpose with respect to sexual behaviour is to release steroid hormones into the body. As Brown (1994) asserted, these are those hormones, unlike most others, that directly effect genes and have 'especially...

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