Abstract
Recent evidence has suggested an important role for the prepuberal ovary in the development of female sexual behavior in the rat. Gerall. Dunlap, and Hendricks (1973) demonstrated that female rats retaining ovaries throughout prepuberal life exhibited higher levels of female sexual behavior than animals neonatally gonadectomized. In addition. male rats neonatally castrated and receiving ovarian implants showed greater female receptivity than did male subjects castrated but not receiving ovaries. Ovarian tenancy during development has also been shown to modify the effects of neonatal androgenization. Blizard and Denef (1973) reported higher levels of female behavior in animals neonatally administered androgen when ovaries were present to 102 days of age . Additional evidence supporting an ovarian masking effect is provided by Hendricks and Duft~ - (1974). who found higher levels of female sexual behavior in androgenized females which had their ovaries intact through 20 and 60 days. The influence of ovarian secretions during
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