Faithfulness Gene

[spiral]

Like, Like, if you saw the fight between the three women at the mall today, for a parking space, you wouldn't be saying that.

[hyebruin]

Newsflash: it's not just women who have testosterone (the hormone responsible for [aka libido])
men also have small amounts of estrogen circulating, maybe THAT's responsible for the occasional nice things they do for us!

[loseyourname]

Why didn't you throw in the part about oxytocin inducing contractions during labor?

What the hell does lactating have to do with falling in love? Wouldn't you already be "in love"/lust by the time you're lactating (ie having had produced a child)?

If I listed everything each hormone did, it would be a pretty long and boring list. I'm sure you're well aware that the same hormone has different effects depending on the target cells. In the mammary glands, oxytocin causes lactation. In the uterus, it causes contraction. In the brain, it causes lust.

In response to hyebruin, there is nothing theoretical about this. You're just paranoid if you somehow think that I or anyone is trying to say that the release of three neurotransmitters is all there is to love. There is no doubt, however, that the responses triggered by their binding to receptors is what causes the feelings and attachments we recognize as lusting, falling in love, and wanting to become monogamous. Now, obviously there are a great deal of other feelings that play into whether or not these particular feelings will prevail and there are even some people who don't always follow their feelings. People like me, for instance, who try to look past these feelings we really have little control over in order to see what potential a relationship really has.

Then there are the cynics like you and Seapahn, for whom no amount of neurotransmitters could ever do anything. Good luck to you anyway.

[Anonymouse]

People like me, for instance, who try to look past these feelings we really have little control over in order to see what potential a relationship really has.

Speak for yourself weakling, I have control over who I fall in love with ( hence why I never allow myself to fall in love with a non-Armenian ). This is whole "gene", or "hormone" babble is for people who are too weak to take accountability, and need something to blame for their ineptitude.

[loseyourname]

Given that you've never been in love with anybody, Armenian or otherwise, how do you even know you're capable of it?

[Anonymouse]

Oh I've been in love. It is just that I was able to control it, and wield it.

[hyebruin]

Then there are the cynics like you and Seapahn, for whom no amount of neurotransmitters could ever do anything. Good luck to you anyway.

hahaaaa!!! silly loser! if you knew ANYTHING about me you wouldn't lump me and seapahn into one category!!--
you are absolutely clueless!

[sSsflamesSs]

If I listed everything each hormone did, it would be a pretty long and boring list. I'm sure you're well aware that the same hormone has different effects depending on the target cells. In the mammary glands, oxytocin causes lactation. In the uterus, it causes contraction. In the brain, it causes lust.

That was my point...precisely my point.

My addition of oxytocin causing contractions in uterine muscles was a mockery of your addition of oxytocin causing lactation, for that has nothing to do with lust, at least not temporally. As I said before, you'd be already in love or experiencing lust by the time you're lactating (~9 months, to be exact). To put it shortly, don't babble lines out of your bio book if you're looking to impress.

[loseyourname]

That was my point...precisely my point.

My addition of oxytocin causing contractions in uterine muscles was a mockery of your addition of oxytocin causing lactation, for that has nothing to do with lust, at least not temporally. As I said before, you'd be already in love or experiencing lust by the time you're lactating (~9 months, to be exact). To put it shortly, don't babble lines out of your bio book if you're looking to impress.

A little cranky? I wasn't claiming any correlation. I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, which I made pretty clear. Anyway, I understand this forum exists so that we can mock each other, not so that we can hold decent discussions. So please continue.

[loseyourname]

hahaaaa!!! silly loser! if you knew ANYTHING about me you wouldn't lump me and seapahn into one category!!--
you are absolutely clueless!

You and he are the two most cynical posters in the love and romance forum. Do you deny it?