{"id":233162,"date":"2010-01-26T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsalmon.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-01-26T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:52:42","slug":"want-more-sex-and-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233162","title":{"rendered":"Want more sex and romance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trollydolly.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sexy-couple-medium-new.jpg\" alt=\"sexy couple\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re feeling as if staying close is not so simple, that\u2019s because the male and female brain are very complex.<\/p>\n<p>Very.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not just my opinion. According to Louann Brizendine &#8212; professor of psychiatry with an expertise in neuroscience &#8212; WOW &#8211; what a difference a chromosome makes!<\/p>\n<p>Brizendine in her writings explains how a man\u2019s hypothalamus \u2013 the brain area which governs sexual pursuit &#8212; is said to be potentially as much as seven times larger than a female\u2019s hypothalamus \u2013 making it a fact that men have sex on the brain more than women \u2013 in a literal sense. Plus, it has also been estimated that the sex circuits in a typical man&#8217;s brain light up once a minute &#8212; much more often than a woman&#8217;s \u2013 only in the particular Brizendine article I read, she didn\u2019t say how much more.<\/p>\n<p>One thing men and women actually do share in common \u2013 the natural decline in dopamine and oxytocin (the two male and female stimulators of feelings of emotional attachment). It\u2019s both a male and female phenomenon that as length of a relationship increases, the plentihood of dopamine and oxytocin decrease.<\/p>\n<p>However Brizendine shares a silver lining within the midst of this dark neurological cloud: \u201cAnything that brings the two of you together &#8211;reading on the couch with her legs stretched across your knees, or watching TV with your heads resting together &#8212; can produce a splash of (dopamine and oxytocin).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A quick tip in particular for men: \u201cStudies have found that a hug from a partner will produce an oxytocin rush in a woman&#8217;s brain&#8211;but only if that hug lasts 20 seconds or more. And just about everything that falls under the general heading of &#8216;foreplay&#8217; is likely to produce a similar effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A quick warning in particular for women: \u201cThe effects of oxytocin can be incredibly disarming to a woman. Female animals injected with the stuff seem to throw caution to the wind and cuddle up with the first available male. And that is why, when women ask me for advice about men, I warn them, &quot;Don&#8217;t hug the guy unless you plan to trust him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>One particular story Brizendine shared truly stood out \u2026about a couple seeking marital aid.<\/p>\n<p>In Brizendine\u2019s words: \u201cThe woman&#8211;let&#8217;s call her Jane&#8211;had virtually stopped having sex with her husband, whom we&#8217;ll call Evan. They had both begun new jobs, and the hot wires that connected them had gradually gone cold. Jane never felt in the mood. Evan suspected she had a lover. Jane was thunderstruck. How could Evan imagine such a thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever in the mood,\u201d says Brizendine, is one of the most common complaints women bring to her office, and one of the easiest to fix. It&#8217;s simply what happens when male and female brains \u2013 being so different &#8212; miss the point with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Brizendine explains: \u201cIt was natural for Evan, with his male brain bleating for sex once a minute, to assume that his wife had similar appetites that were being satisfied elsewhere. Jane had no idea that to the male brain, sex is as essential to a relationship as TALKING.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple hashed out their problems in Brizendine\u2019s office. When they returned two weeks later, their sex life was as hot as ever.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>The couple together had decided to stop referring to sex as &quot;sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead the husband and wife had good humorously re-named sex as: &quot;male communication.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Brizendine joked back to all of her male readers of her work that she wished them \u201can abundance of male communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I agree \u2013 and would like to add a note to all of you women readers out there.<em> I wish you all plenty of <strong>multiple <\/strong> male communication!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prince-Harming-Syndrome-Relationship-Essentials\/dp\/084370926X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264539099&amp;sr=8-1\"><strong>For more sex and romance advice, check out my OPRAH.com loved book PRINCE HARMING SYNDROME by clicking this line here!<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><span><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&amp;title=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Save to del.icio.us\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">del.icio.us<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/bookmark.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&amp;title=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Slashdot It!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Slashdot<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&amp;title=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Digg This Post!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Digg<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F\"\"  title=\"Share on Facebook!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Facebook<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?add=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F\"  title=\"Add to my Technorati Favorites!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Technorati<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/bookmarks\/mark?op=edit&amp;output=popup&amp;bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&amp;title=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Add to my Google Bookmarks!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Google<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&amp;title=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Stumble it!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">StumbleUpon<\/span><\/a> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/myweb2.search.yahoo.com\/myresults\/bookmarklet?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnotsalmon.com%2F2010%2F01%2F26%2Fwant-more-sex-and-romance%2F&#038;t=Want+more+sex+and+romance%3F\"  title=\"Add to Yahoo!\"> <span class=\"bloglink\">Yahoo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re feeling as if staying close is not so simple, that\u2019s because the male and female brain are very complex. 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