{"id":2885,"date":"2012-11-14T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2012-11-14T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:23:38","slug":"the-love-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/the-love-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Drug?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Married? \u00a0In a committed relationship that you'd like to keep committed? \u00a0Forget hairspray - bring on the oxytocin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oxytocin is a hormone made in the brain's hypothalamus. \u00a0It triggers childbirth, helps with breastfeeding and - apparently - promotes togetherness and fidelity. \u00a0 \u00a0A new study involved a group of 86 heterosexual men with an average age of 25. \u00a0Researchers dosed the guys with either oxytocin or a placebo to study the effects. \u00a0And what were they?<\/p>\n

Men in committed relationships who got the morning spritz of oxytocin kept a greater physical distance when approaching or being approached by a woman they considered attractive. It had no effect on the single fellows nor did the oxytocin effect the distance men kept between themselves and other men.<\/p>\n

\"Because oxytocin is known to increase trust in people<\/a>, we expected men under the influence of the hormone to allow the female experimenter to come even closer, but the direct opposite happened,\" study leader Rene Hurlemann, of the University of Bonn, in Germany, said in a journal news release.<\/p>\n

The findings suggest that oxytocin may help men remain faithful to their female partners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I've always had particular fears about Mr. Duck and red-headed women. \u00a0Why red-heads? \u00a0Does jealousy need a reason? \u00a0I'd be equally unhappy with him hooking up with a blonde, a brunette or a woman with purple and green locks.<\/p>\n

This only means one thing............ \u00a0I may have to do something drastic like, alter a morning ritual at the Duck Pond. \u00a0In the morning Mr. Duck and our littlest duckling (he's a high school kid but will always be my baby) venture back to the bedroom where I'm making myself look semi-human. \u00a0They kiss me goodbye before heading out into the wide world. Sometimes, they arrive as I have hairspray in hand.<\/p>\n

I'm thinking I could fix up a label for the oxytocin that says something like \"Forever - Hold Hairspray\" and accidentally keep it in my hand whilst giving Mr. Duck his morning smooch. \u00a0Now, if I can only figure out a way to spray it up his nose without him noticing.<\/p>\n

I suppose I could deploy a curvy red-head. \u00a0That might keep Mr. Duck from noticing anything, including a nuclear explosion. \u00a0But it seems \u00a0counterproductive somehow, doesn't it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Married? \u00a0In a committed relationship that you'd like to keep committed? \u00a0Forget hairspray - bring on the oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone made in the brain's hypothalamus. \u00a0It triggers childbirth, helps with breastfeeding and - apparently - promotes togetherness and fidelity. \u00a0 \u00a0A new study involved a group of 86 heterosexual men with an average ...continue reading \"The Love Drug?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}