Here is the HTML version of my master's degree project, which some of you out there on the Internet have expressed interest in seeing. The conversion has been done automatically using rtftohtml, and I've not undertaken to go through and make the formatting pretty.

The Neurosciences programme requires that the project be structured as a mock NIH small grant proposal. Remember this is a mock proposal, so none of the experiments featured will actually be done (at least, not by me). If you're just interested in what this is all about, I suggest looking at the section on background and significance. The length of the main text is limited to ten pages in twelve-point type, and I had to widen the default margins, delete white space, and use Times Roman to squeeze what I had to say into that space. So there are subtopics that I may have said more about had I the leisure.

One of the experiments proposed uses the Sexual Outlet Inventory, developed by Martin Kafka at McLean Hospital, as a measure of fetishistic thoughts and behaviours. The original copy included that inventory as an appendix. Since it has not been published, it has been deleted from this public version.

Matthew Belmonte
April 1994

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