Science of sex and attraction

How do sexual fantasies vary and how do they arise? How do they relate to unusual sexual practices such as fetishism, transvestism and...

Is love a kind of obsession?  Is it a positive or an unhealthy phenomenon?  How can we recover from the loss of a partner or...

How hormones, phermones and bonding chemicals connect with the experiences of sexual arousal and romantic love.  To what extent are...

How the "selfish genes" of men and women sometimes create conflict...

Are our sexual preferences acquired through social learning or are...

What are men and women looking for in a partner? What accounts for...

What constitutes human facial beauty and bodily attractiveness? How...

Allen & Overy Lecture

Societal demand for products and services that generate or enhance the pleasure of the individual are...

Glenn D Wilson is a reader in Personality at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry and one of Britain's best-known...

Some people seem to be 'simply irresistible' - the title of Professor Persaud's new book on attraction - but is attractiveness something...