Please listen to Claudia. Thanks.

claudiagray:

While Oxytocin is real, the rest of this is totally untrue. Women AND men produce oxytocin during sexual intercourse … and at other times, too. While it is believed to relate to emotional bonding — whether romantic, familial, or within larger groups — it is related to several other physical and emotional functions as well, i.e., uterine contractions during labor, wound healing, and empathy.

In other words, no, women are not powerless to stop themselves from emotionally bonding for life with anybody they experience sexual arousal with, and men are not hardwired to produce an emotional bonding chemical only with their children, never with their sexual partners. 

Why do stories like this gain so much traction? What cultural myths about men and women does it rise from, and reinforce? Worth thinking about, the next time you read something like this. 

life-confessions:

There is a chemical in a girls’ brain is released only two different times in her life, when she has sex, and when she breast feeds her baby. This chemical emotionally connects her to another person for the rest of her life. Us guys? We only release this chemical when we bond with our children. So if you think sex is a game and go around fucking as many girls as you want, remember that you can mentally mess this girl up for the rest of her life. If you’re still friends afterwards then whatever, but she will always feel some sort of feeling for you, just because of the chemical.

It’s called Oxytocin, it’s actually released when a woman gives birth as well. But this is so true… sex is more than just a game, and this is a clear reason that explains why humans were only created to have sex with just one person. Doing it with multiple people will have a very strong negative effect on your relationship with the person you want to be with for the rest of your life. I wish more kids knew about this… not that this should be your only motive not to have sex before marriage, but it is one of the most important.

Everyone should know this.