Why Women Have Sex On The Brain

TheTimes.com.uk ^ | 9-8-2001 | Nigel Hawkes

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 08 2001
Why women have sex on the brain

BY NIGEL HAWKES

Scientific study has answered the question of why we fall in love in the most unromantic way possible

THE question that has perhaps most obsessed and mystified the poets, philosophers and thinkers — why do we fall in love? — has been answered in the most unromantic way possible: by the scientific study of the humble prairie vole.
Music was the food of love in Shakespeare’s book, but the truth, according to Professor Gareth Leng of the University of Edinburgh, lies in a “love potion” created in women’s brains after the act of sex, which helps her to form a bond with her partner.

Professor Leng, speaking to the British Association Science Festival in Glasgow yesterday, said that it is all in the chemistry because of evidence gleaned from the vole, which engages in enormous bouts of sexual intercourse, far in excess of that needed for reproduction.

“If you were to spend (many hours in) intense sexual activity with a partner, something fundamental might happen to your behaviour,” he said. “That’s often what you see in animals. Many animals bond for life. It’s not going to surprise anybody to think something fundamental is happening in the brain.”

Oxytocin, produced by the pituitary gland in the brain, is probably also involved in creating the bond between mother and child at birth and during breast-feeding. In prairie voles, a monogamous species, the effect is especially strong.

“If you put a male and female prairie vole into a cage, but don’t allow them to mate, they seem to form a kind of friendship. But if you inject oxytocin into the female’s brain, she will form this sexual bond.”

Professor Leng said: “We’re talking about 24 hours of constant copulation.” Translated to human behaviour, he said, this could mean that the more sex a couple have, the deeper their bond becomes, at least on the woman’s side.

“So how does a brain fall in love? My answer, perhaps, like yours, would be: a time, a place, a pair of eyes.”

[hobbes1]

My pleasure....

[hobbes1]

If you were to spend (many hours in) intense sexual activity with a partner, something fundamental might happen to your behaviour

Scientific proof of the the efficacy of the Floor Tile Analogy....

[NeoCaveman]

I am shocked that certain coquettes are MIA on this one, I'll have to bring this to class for some "show and tell"

[NeoCaveman]

Scientific proof of the the efficacy of the Floor Tile Analogy....

Absolutely true.
Not that any further science was needed on the subject

[MadIvan]

By being sexually aggressive, liberal males are stimulating the production of Oxytocin.

I don't know if I entirely agree with that - I can't think of anything more unmanly than Socialism. Even John Major had a lot more testosterone running around in him than Blair ever has (stories from ex-girlfriends seem to confirm this).

Our leftist opponents are often times weedy little bastards (how much do you want to bet Sideshow Bill has a glass jaw?) who express extreme paranoia over the food they eat (imagine a leftist taking a date to a steak restaurant - impossible, isn't it?) and paranoia about adhering to the feminist socialist orthodoxy of the day. Meanwhile, the true conservative is getting roses for the lady and not giving a bloody damn that he should be having tofu for supper instead.

As for supposed liberal male aggressiveness. This is not so much aggressiveness as is it is perversion. Unable to express themselves in healthy ways, they express themselves in unhealthy ones (think about what Bill did to Juanita, for example). Why might women be keen on this? Well far too many women live up to the old saying, "Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen." - far too many women see their role in life is to somehow "redeem" bad boys and recycle them. Faced with a good guy, well that's hardly a challenge, is it?

Regards, Ivan

FREE BRITANNIA

[hobbes1]

that was my intention...Also. re:Coquettes, we need a singular expression for our gender group...I vote Voles....

because of evidence gleaned from the vole, which engages in enormous bouts..., far in excess of that needed for reproduction.

[Hugh Akston]

I AM NOT UPTIGHT!!!!

[hobbes1]

Not that any further science was needed on the subject

It's all in the puppy dog eyes.....

[NeoCaveman]

Sounds like a fitting name to me.

[hobbes1]

Go Voles..... (with all due apologies to Tennesee fans !)

[hobbes1]

But if you inject oxytocin into the female’s brain, she will form this sexual bond.” Professor Leng said: “We’re talking about 24 hours of constant copulation.”

All we need now, is a way to get this stuff in Shot Glasses.....

[Razz Barry]

..Or if the guy is rich and shows up in a new BMW, the oxytocin really kicks in......!

Turning off the TV and helping with the housework, without bit--ing, works for me.

[NeoCaveman]

All we need now, is a way to get this stuff in Shot Glasses.....

IF we are first to market with it, we will become independently wealthy voles.

[Bella_Bru]

LOL!

[NeoCaveman]

Professor Leng said: “We’re talking about 24 hours of constant copulation.”

I'm calling my broker and investing in oyster farms. hehehe

[VRWCmember]

Then you have StoneColdGOP, who is a conservative but is actually a fun guy.

Mushrooms are fungi too.

[Razz Barry]

With women, it has to be good sex. I think Eddie Murphy is the one who said, "If you can make a woman c--e, one good time, you can treat her like sh!+ for the rest of her life."

[Diamond]

And yep, I was a fornicator. But I never got pregnant or regretted anything. Well, I did regret the wasted for 4 dates with Mr. Abortion-Devil's Music-Hollyweird-I-Like-To-Sit-Around-And-Piss-And-Moan-About-Society.

I'm not trying to be rude here, but isn't regret the proper response to shameful past behavior?

Cordially,

[RLK]

Does this mean that men actually must be more responsible for their behavior than women?

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It means both sexes need to wise up.

[lawgirl]

What a cute puppy!! I have always thought labs were just SO cute but they turn into big dogs. I only want a house dog (someday) and it's not right to have a big dog in the house- they need to run and play and not make a mess of your house. I wish they'd just make a miniature lab!!