OXYTOCIN

Add that to your vocabulary if it's not already there. From this weekend's reading on the brain, I found:

"Now researchers are beginning to sort out how body and mind work together to produce the wild, tender, ineffable feelings we call love. They have found, for example, that oxytocin, a chemical that fosters the bond between mothers and children, probably helps fuel romantic love as well....Far from reducing love's thrill to dry facts, biologists' efforts underscore the emotion's importance."

And then, a little ways down:

"Like some human playboys, male prairie voles seem to get a kick out of courtship mixed with danger. Carter and colleague Courtney DeVries made young, unmated volues swim for three minutes before allowing them to meet a prospective mate. The exercise elevated the animals' stress hormones, which are also heightened by fear. But while females scurried off after the swim without bonding to the males as they normally would, male voles bonded faster than ever." (Shareon Brownlee in Student Brains; School Issues edited by Robert Sylwester. 1998. Published by SkyLight Training and Publishing Inc., Arlington Heights, IL.)

I'm sure there's something to be learned from this vole study that may be applied in both the classroom and bedroom. Darned if I can see it now.

Beast regards,
Wildwind

Dear WW:" oxytocin, a chemical that fosters the bond between mothers and children,"

Have you forgotten discussion back in December, about the important part oxytocin plays in essential process of separating mother and child?

Dear WW: As I always do, I searched for your header. I was amazed at what I got. Material for adults only.
I refrain from inquiring if you saw this before I did. I saw story about it on BBC news quite a few months ago.But never before the complete details. Again, potentially offensive to the refined.

http://www.snopes2.com/sex/tattled/swire.htm

oxytocin, Don't worry about it..
(was it just december? oxytocin is also used as a drug, it help to stimulate contractions, and it is used if a woman is having 'slow labor'-- it was used on me, and i am not to keen on it.. my water broke, no labor for many hours, a growing concern about infections (aminotic fluid helps to protect the baby from infections) a shot of oxytocin, and a baby less than 1 hour later.. way to fast for my comfort!

i recieved in an email, a piece about woman and mens reactions to stress (i think WOW sent it to me...but i an not sure) in any case, it was a study that discovered that women, with high levels of adrelaine-- the so called flight or fight hormone, tend to do neither... women tend to huddle together, and comfort each other.. so they tend to fight or fondle! and more often fondle!

if i still have the email, i'll post it on monday--or some one else might have it, and add it sooner.-- many studies on hormones have only been done on men (often men in prison) and some of the finding are not true for the homones effect women. (duh!)

something to be learned from this vole study that may be applied in [...] bedroom...

get a water bed?

aunty mav, if word wind is busy, remember me, the omnilogic one.. you know, i am interested in learning--everything! i am ready for lessons any time!
(PS-- don't tell jackie!)

Mav's waterbed response was clever, of Troy. Me, I'm still in shock after having clicked on Bill's link.

And here I thought we'd have an intelligent conversation about voles!

Beast regards,
WordWashed

Dear WW: Yum, Yum. It rhymes with scum But, remember, I didn't start it. And I'm glad you were surprised. Or proper enough to pretend to be.

But while females scurried off after the swim without bonding to the males as they normally would, male voles bonded faster than ever."

With whom?
Is bonding used here as an euphemism for blatant sex?

Bonding, as used in today's prissy world, is a fuzzy word that has yet to find a precise meaning. I use it often, most often when I almost know what I'm talking about. Like below...

Bonding in voles and men is complex, and can only be reduced to chemical determants as a point-guide to full comprehension.

Did I make myself clear? - -

You know, when I read that bit of text about those male voles bonding, I didn't imagine sex at all. I saw 'em givin' little high fives to each other, slingin' tiny beers, laughin' at each other's whispery farts--those kinds of male bonding things.

Beast regards,
Wordwakened

ready for lessons any time!

yeahbut®

how do I just know you'ld be regaling me with interesting facts about the sinusoidal patterns of waveforms in a restricted vessel or some such thing?

Perhaps fear, like the Porter's drink, is an equivocator:

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

specially fer yuw, J! ;)