Study: Love, Lust Don't Mix, Much

Discovery Channel ^ | 6/11/05 | Jennifer Viegas

[pissant]

It's a researcher's welfare program, apparently!

[pissant]

Indeed. There is a country tune for all occasions! ;o)

[pissant]

LOL. Nothing like the voice of experience, Caroline! ;o)

[pissant]

No worries. It died early.

[No Truce With Kings]

"No. Harems are for husbands only!"

You mean that never -- ever -- in the course of your marriage you have purchased a present for your wife that you *really* meant for yourself?

If so, I salute you. You are a man among men.

[pissant]

I think it was privately funded. By Hugh Hefner.

[pissant]

That's a darn good angle to use: "here honey, I bought you a bevy of twenty-something maids". Good thinking!

[mistress_of_tantra]

hahahha it probably was funded by Huge ;)

[Mr. Jeeves]

They also say humans have evolved three distinct brain systems for mating and reproduction: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner.

So that's why men often need three different women to cover each of these areas. ;)

[Oberon]

"(Love) requires more sophisticated behaviors, reward and memory systems than other mammals..."

I wasn't aware that love was a mammal. Learn something new every day, I guess...

[pissant]

Is Hugh huge......tell us more about what you know. ;o)

[pissant]

We are on the same page, Jeeves!

[pissant]

Yes, I try to educate with my threads...

[Oberon]

Yes, I try to educate with my threads...

Well, it is worth noting that mammals are unique among animals in that they possess mammary glands...hence the name.

And mammary glands certainly have something to do with love, wouldn't you agree?

[najida]

Sorry sweetie,
but most (not all) but most of the 'harem' myth is just that, a myth ;) that was the soft porn of the Victorian era.

I mean, if ya don't mine your mama, granny, sisters, cousin Susie, all the hired help and kids under 10 watching. Been there, ain't as 'romantic' as ya would think (and most of the time, the women REALLY resent any guys showing up). ;)

[najida]

As for love versus lust....
I've only been 'in love' twice in my life...

It's hard sometimes to seperate the two, but love is best described as when you simply want that other person to be happy, even if it isn't with you.

[pissant]

Or more likely lust, though I've never experienced it....

[pissant]

I'll take the harem as long as I can pick 'em out. I'll buy the other relatives a tent over on the next oasis. ;o)

[pissant]

FOr guys it's different, just so you know. ;o)

[Oberon]

Or more likely lust, though I've never experienced it....

Oh, of course not. Me neither. [sniff]