Posted on 09/09/2001 7:56:10 AM PDT by blam
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.”
I think that is going a little too far. Many liberal women are physically attractive in their 20s and 30s.
But by the time they get into their forties, the fertility magnetism is gone, and their hubbies wake up each morning next to a nightmare of bitterness and vile.
As for me, I find that as I get older, even liberal women in their 20s and 30s no longer seem attractive. The complete and total self-absorption, the eternal self-pity, seeing themselves as the center of the universe, constantly bellowing out demands and brooking no disagreement no matter how emotionally irrational their viewpoint is -- well, it's too much like my mother.
ROFLMAO
qualifier - that's a 'male' brain!
this is a joke right?
Conservative women have brains, that's why they are conservative. And have you ever noticed the number of women who post on FR. I think it was Hillery's Lovely Legs who had a thread about how she couldn't get dates because of her conservatism. Good looking red head if another woman can say that and not get misunderstood.
I read this thread but didn't post on it.
Now accepting applications to test this theory. Of course, this is in the interest of science...
I read this thread but didn't post on it.
Thanks, Now we'll see how many really want to read it. LOL.
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And then, following the rules established in Cosmopolitan and Playboy magazines, he runs off to be with somebody else the next life leaving her unaccountably infuriated.
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You just won the Nobel Prize. That's a common clinical syndrome. Women become sexually bonded to bad men and can't figure out what keeps them prisoners in the relationship. They become sexual slaves.
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When women start becoming sexually active at 16 they need to stay emotionally frigid to avoid being hurt by broken bonding. What occurs is a condition of emotional celebacy with compensitory sterile hypersexuality.
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There's a lot wrong with it when it keeps you a prisoner of someone with who you are incompatable or who hates and abuses you. It's an effective way to ruin your life.
It may also explain why so many women seem indifferent toward decent conservative guys, but swoon over worthless liberals. By being sexually aggressive, liberal males are stimulating the production of Oxytocin. By being proper and respectful, conservatives males inhibit the production of Oxytocin.This is a disturbingly plausible explanation. On the other hand, if this is true, then the Darwinists win, and it's senseless to worry about anything.While it would be wrong to generalize to all women, all too often it appears that the more respect you show toward a woman, the more contempt she shows toward you. With women proclaiming with their mouths that all men are jerks, and at the same time their actions are resulting in an illegitimacy rate reaching record levels, you know something isn't tracking here.
For most of human history, the act of seduction has been blamed entirely on men, as if women have no responsibility. That may be closer to the truth than we care to admit.
I think that is going a little too far. Many liberal women are physically attractive in their 20s and 30s.Beauty is among the most corrupting all of human qualities, and beautiful women are seduced, uniformly, by the Blob (membership of The Ladies' Investigative Guild notwithstanding). When one of these Volvo-driving, Yoko Ono Sunglasses-wearing, Sheryl Crow-listening, Lilith Fair-attending chicks discovers you're pro-life, you can kiss her goodbye. They will NOT date us, and the rejections can be pretty damned humiliating.But by the time they get into their forties, the fertility magnetism is gone, and their hubbies wake up each morning next to a nightmare of bitterness and vile.
As for me, I find that as I get older, even liberal women in their 20s and 30s no longer seem attractive. The complete and total self-absorption, the eternal self-pity, seeing themselves as the center of the universe, constantly bellowing out demands and brooking no disagreement no matter how emotionally irrational their viewpoint is -- well, it's too much like my mother.
Apparently prairie voles are different, but they aren't much at dinner conversation, and ultimately make terrible housekeepers.
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