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Is Testosterone Conditioning a Dopamine Rise?
Men will objectify pretty much anything. They have a purpose-built reward mechanism for looking at things that are sexually gratifying as well? Yes. So that testosterone appears to condition a dopamine rise when there's reproductively salient stimuli in the environment. And women who report not having a maternal instinct don't have that same dopamine rise.