[ **up: [[Sex (Animal sexual behaviour)]]** ] --- # Paced mating [[2025-0313. 'Paced mating in rats is an experimental condition ... enabling the female to control the rate of the sexual interaction.'|'Paced mating in rats is an experimental condition that allows the evaluation of sexual behavior in a way that closely resembles what occurs in seminatural and natural conditions enabling the female to control the rate of the sexual interaction.']][^1] [[2025-0313. 'Paced mating, which happens when females can escape and control the amount of sexual stimulation they receive by interrupting males’ mounts, is thought to reduce the aversive properties of mating...'|'Paced mating, which happens when females can escape and control the amount of sexual stimulation they receive by interrupting males’ mounts, is thought to reduce the aversive properties of mating...']][^2] [^1]: Elisa Ventura-Aquino and Raúl G. Paredes, ‘Being friendly: paced mating for the study of physiological, behavioral, and neuroplastic changes induced by sexual behavior in females’, *Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience*, vol. 17 (28 September 2023), p. 1. [^2]: Léa Zinck and Susana Q. Lima, ‘[[Zinck & Lima. ‘Mate Choice in Mus musculus Is Relative and Dependent on the Estrous State’, 2013.|Mate Choice in Mus musculus Is Relative and Dependent on the Estrous State]]’, *PLOS One*, vol. 8, issue 6 (10 June 2013), p. 6.