Interesting article on the end of men as we know it
Cuddle Men
Oxytocin is the love hormone. This article begins to talk about things I was chatting about years ago. Oxytocin nassle sprays? Been there, done that. I think what is most interesting is what happens when this moves off the weirdo section on the BBC and sits on a shelf in Boots next to the condoms.
Failing Fatherhood
Although this article specifically sites black fathers I think the principal probably applies across the whole racial spectrum to a greater or lesser extent.
Posted in Fatherhood, maculinity
The new male pill
A remote control switch inserted into the vas deferens ensure your tubes are blocked at the press of a button. Apparently untoward radio signals wont affect it.
It’s all our fault?
This is an article proposing that our boom and bust economy is all down to the hormone testosterone, which men have in abundance. What would our economy look and behave like if the city was predominantly female rather than male?
Posted in masculinity, testosterone
Who’s the daddy?
On a genetic level its got to be women. Look at the size of those X chromosomes compared to the Y’s… and females have got two of those bad boys.
Posted in Genetics
Knock Yourself Up
Well, i haven’t read the book but the reviews ive read seem to suggest it is very good. IT really should be to counterbalance such a glib yet provocative title. More about the book, the author and the ideas can be found at a website of the same name.
Girl Power…Male Hormones
A leading gynecologist has recently claimed that female politicians are using testosterone implants to try to match their male counterparts in assertiveness and competitiveness.
Malcolm Whitehead, a Harley Street doctor, said he had prescribed the hormone for a number of women who wanted to “beef up” their image in the macho world of politics. He commented: “I have prescribed testosterone implants for female politicians in Westminster who want to compete better with their male colleagues in committee meetings and parliamentary debates. They claim the hormone boosts their assertiveness and makes them feel more powerful.”
His extraordinary claim – recently published in the New Statesman magazine – was greeted with disbelief in Westminster – but, then again, which female MP was going to publicly admit to trying testosterone?
Posted in masculinity, society, testosterone
Love more powerful than sex
Sex and romance may seem inextricably linked, but the human brain clearly distinguishes between the two, according to a new study. The upshot: Love is the more powerful emotion.
The results of brain scans speak to longstanding questions of whether the pursuit of love and sex are different emotional endeavors or whether romance is just warmed over sexual arousal.
“Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal,” said Arthur Aron of the State University of New York-Stony Brook. “Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems.”
The processing of romantic feelings involves a “constellation of neural systems.” The researchers — neuroscientists, anthropologists and social psychologists — declare love the clear winner versus sex in terms of its power over the human mind.
“Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences,” said study member Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. “It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive.”
Fisher said the study might suggest some of the physiology of stalking behavior. Other studies suggest that up to 40 percent of people who are rejected in love slip into clinical depression, she said.
“Rejected men and women in societies around the world sometimes kill themselves or someone else,” Fisher said.
Taken from http://www.livescience.com/health/050531_love_sex.html
