HSR: Beyond Sex Recognition
What happens after sex-related information has been recognized?
The published HSR paper focuses on recognition, but later behaviors require additional systems. Once a cue identifies sex-related information, it may also acquire personal, social, and emotional meaning. The question then becomes how HSR-like information interacts with learned emotion, motivation, courtship, caregiving, affiliation, competition, and safety.
This distinction is important because recognizing sex is not the same as explaining sexual behavior. Emotions associated with sexual behavior may be learned through development and social experience, and courtship includes approach, touch, hesitation, refusal, trust, fear, and consent. Researchers who have focused mainly on HPSR or pheromone models may find new questions by considering voice-based pathways and the systems that later use them.