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Hey everyone, here is an article on oxytocin just released on BBC news in the UK, some of you might find it interesting (although it is a bit basic if you've read CPA):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8653500.stm

Cheers,
Parky

I'm new here, and I'm almost overwhelmed by all the wonderful new perspectives and information to consider.

However, I feel as though there's an elephant in the room that's getting insufficient comment: men use and abuse pornography infinitely more than women. This has grave consequences for society, families, and relationships.

I cannot help but feel that men, by their biological make-up, are innately threatening to these very constructs, and that ubiquitous access to sexual imagery has merely revealed the true extent and inherent nature of the threat.

The traditional role of men in the act of intimacy is usually that of the active one - i.e. he does the thrusting whilst the woman receives it. This may be all well and good within the traditional fertilisation-driven sex framework, but can we really RE-UNITE within such an approach? If it is about focus on the man being the giver and the woman always the receiver, then how can we reach union given that both genders have an aspect that the other needs? Isn't there truth in the phrase "in giving you receive"?

I'm curious about how Oxytocin plays a role in the male brain. Most of the reading I do on it pertains to female reproduction. Is Oxytocin released in the male brain in the same way it is in the female brain? Does it produce the same bonding results?