Why Women Have Sex On The Brain

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.”

The problem I saw with some of the conservative guys (my husband is BTW) was that many of them couldn't let go and have fun.

Sorry, Bella, that doesn't wash.

The problem isn't that the men take themselves too seriously, it's that the women do. Men can take a joke, women file sexual harrassment suits. And I've found that I get into the most trouble with women when they bring up serious issues and I dare to disagree with them.

I've seen many, many American women get visibly upset and outraged with me on the basis of misinterpreting a simple statement that I made in the most far-fetched and outlandish way possible. This isn't even open to debate: women are far more uptight than men.

The typical woman today is unquestionably extroverted -- in a contrived, forced-laugh, false-face kind of way. But if she sees a guy letting his hair down, being vulnerable and having fun, she's like that wife of King David who saw him dancing with the people around the Ark of the Covenant, and felt contempt.

The typical American woman today is intellectually pretentious. She's also emotionally pretentious -- pretending that she 'doesn't need' men -- and then swooning into the arms of any jerk who grabs her and starts kissing.

The average liberal jerk gets drunk or stoned at a party and just sits there mumbling off into empty space -- until he passes out. That's the kind of guy that a modern woman considers 'interesting.'

I have tried all kinds of conversational strategies with single, attractive American women. I have talked about mundane things, I have talked about ships and sealing wax, I have talked about my career, I have avoided talking about my career, I have tried to talk about her, I have tried to let her do the talking -- everything fails. Except one thing: if you comment about how brilliant and perceptive she is, and agree enthusiastically with everything she says -- why, then you're a fascinating and charming genius!

It's like the Garden of Eden every day, with Eve forcing Adam to choose between God and her. All she demands is his integrity, and his worship. Says the Goddess: Thou shalt not have strange gods (integrity, honesty, objectivity) before me.

Moreover, I disagree with your assessment that conservative men obsess about politics to the consernation of women. Conservative men are not the ones who are politically active by choice. We want the State to be reduced, to get out of our lives. It's the 'apolitical' women voters who demand ever more control of private lives -- the virtual politicization of every aspect of life.

Talk to a woman about how the government 'needs' to provide free health care -- and she'll sit mesmerized. What turns women off isn't politics -- it's the linear sequential logic that men use when discussing politics. Talk instead about 'feelings' or 'needs,' and women will be fascinated.

We're not boring and we know how to have fun. It's the women who are boring. All they want to do is talk about themselves -- where they went, what they're doing, what they're wearing, who saw who with whom. It's tedious, it's trivial, it's superficial and most of all, it's self-absorption.

Example: How women take an awe-inspiring, outward-directed subject like astronomy, and transform it into astrology -- a bastardized exercise in self-absorption if ever there was one.

Though there are exceptions, and remarkable ones at that, the typical American woman today is a spoiled little ignorant brat who thinks she's a goddess -- and needs to be spanked.

Come the Revolution, they will be.

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