The always-kinda-sorta interesting New York Times is reporting that they may soon have the ability to create Love in a lab. So next time you’re at a bar and you see Carmen Electra you can, y’know, just ask her if she wants a Love Cocktail.
The weirdest part is that I’m not making that up. What this means for menfolk in general I’m not sure, but according to Dr. Larry Young originally reported in the new issue of Nature, it has a lot to do with Oxytocin, a hormone that shares a similar genetic make-up as the hormone for pleasure release when one takes cocaine.
“Some of our sexuality has evolved to stimulate that same oxytocin system to create female-male bonds”, Dr Young says, “and more frequent sex and more attention to breasts could help build long-term bonds through a “cocktail of ancient neuropeptides,” like the oxytocin released during foreplay or orgasm.”
Unfortunatley we’re still a few years off from actually figuring out What Is Love (baby don’t hurt me), as this finding is laregely untested and is still a hypothesis. But according to the NYTimes, it would help “explain a couple of differences between humans and less monogamous mammals: females’ desire to have sex even when they are not fertile, and males’ erotic fascination with breasts”. Which would explain why there is a cafe with tables and chairs directley across from the window with the running machines at my local gym, which coincidentally is where the nearby high school cheerleading team seem to end up after school. I’m just saying: the food at that cafe is amazing.
Check out the original article here (NYTimes.com)
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