Brain Inform You When You are in Love

Romantic love lights up the same brain regions of lovers, whether they’re heterosexual or homosexual or male or female, a new study indicates.

Pictures from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans (fMRIs) show similar activity in cortical and sub-cortical brain regions when lovers, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, see images of their romantic partners, according to researchers at University College London.

These regions are known to be rich in dopaminergic activity.

Love Drug Produced During Childbirth

Some have called oxytocin, the "cuddling hormone" produced during childbirth, nursing and sex that is believed to promote long-term attachment, a "love drug."

A few have even wondered if someday drug companies might come up with an oxytocin treatment that could control the heretofore-mysterious process of falling and staying in love.

Sex in Relationships

Relationships come in many forms, including those based solely upon sex. While not the healthiest of relationships, sex only relationships do exist and are more common in recent times than ever before, whether we wish to acknowledge them or not.

Sex is best when reserved for marriage, shared between two people who are committed to each other to the point of wanting to spend the rest of their lives together, there's no doubt about it.

Within a marriage, sex is fulfilling and meaningful because of the trust, respect, and care that each partner has for the other. In a sex only relationship, these emotions are rarely, if ever there.

Male & Female Sexual Response

Female Sexual Response Cycle
These are the typical stages that female animals will experience during the act of sexual intercourse:

1. Desire: The physical attraction to copulate with a partner, often fueled by pheromones--chemicals that attract the attention of members of the opposite sex.

Unanswered Questions of Attraction

The moment you meet someone of your liking, it is not unusual to feel an overwhelming draw toward that person. The spark, or shock wave, that streams through your body is caused by a little thing called attraction.

The question of why certain people trigger such reactions remains a mystery, but researchers continue to study unanswered questions of attraction in hopes of deepening the understanding of the mysterious topic of romantic love.

The first thing to emphasize is the brain chemistry behind attraction. As it turns out, neurotransmitters play a crucial role when falling in "like."