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THE mind reels at the mind.

The New York Times' science section devoted itself on Tuesday to the topic of desire, the myriad ways in which the human mind causes the body to get turned on.

It now seems that instead of desire leading to arousal, as researchers once believed, arousal may lead to desire.

The brain, as D.H. Lawrence once wrote, is a most important sexual organ, and men and women have extremely varied responses to sexual stimuli.

As Natalie Angier, The Times' biology expert, noted, research has shown that women differed from men "in the importance they accorded a man's physical appearance, with many expressing a comparatively greater likelihood of being aroused by evidence of ...

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