More Sex Talk from the Love Scientist

>I’ve taken testosterone just to see what happens, and I understand the problems of teenage boys

I'm impressed. Reminds me of a female neuroscientist on TED who had to take a hormone cocktail designed for men as she was incapable of making her own and there were no cocktail designed for women. I remember her saying she was angry and sex-obsessed all the time. Probably a slightly exaggerated effect because she's not a man, but still pretty illuminating. Chemistry can change us so much, and there's plenty we can not understand with just empathy.

Similarly about depression I've heard Paul Gilmartin say that "thinking you understand depression because you've experienced sadness is like thinking you understand Italy because you've been to Olive Garden".

About casual sex: I interpret the phrasing "because they wanted to get to know the person better" a lot differently than the people in this interview seem to. I've said it myself, actually. What I meant, at least, was that being romantically interested in someone you turn out to be sexually incompatible with happens so often, that often it's best to put the sexual compatibility filter before the romantic interest filter.

>. A most amazing moment for us was a study of people who were epileptics. They had the brain open, and every single time that they had an electrode stimulation to a very certain region of the cardiac nucleuses, which is part of this wanting system, the patient would turn around and say that he loved the doctor.

Anyone else see this and get really curious to read the manuscript from this study? Google has failed me, but if anyone else managed to locate it, please post!

Quite often, she didn't answer the question he asked.

A lot about casual sex and no mention of STDs. These people still think it's the 60s and antibiotics work great. The CDC stat informed reality is that massive numbers of people are picking up infections and parasites that cause them problems for the rest of their lives. The sexual revolution was the fifteen year period when effective antibiotics and contraception were cheap and widely available.