Disruption of 10 male Golden hamsters sexual behavior following pairing of lithium chloride poisoning and female vaginal secretion was studied using male and female hamsters that had been isolated for 5 wk. prior to poisoning. Sniff/lick latencies were longer for poisoned males than for controls but mount times and intromission times were unaffected. These results are consistent with cue-uniqueness effects and also demonstrate conditioned aversion to olfactory sexual cues is not necessarily sufficient to disrupt the male sexual response sequence.
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