37: Oxytocin: the Molecule of Love with Sue Carter

[@joy96815]

Thanks for the upload.

[@woyblank751]

Hi Neil, thank you so much for covering this rare topic, and for giving voice to this truly wonderful woman. I learned so much. About your comment on the effects of orgasm 'habituation', I think it can make sense for dopamine (seeking pleasure)... but in the case of oxytocin, it might help to remember the effect is a feeling of bonding (which I think can work probably well in a compounding effect with other non-sexual ways of inducing feelings of bonding. Also, I feel it is unlikely that one could get addicted to oxytocin because it responds to a more fundamental need than seeking various types of pleasure. In other words, it is likely that a person will naturally and intuitively know that 'they have enough oxytocin' and move on to other activities, because they know they feel safe).

[@bryantholbeck7456]

what if your study was double blind, between individuals for the extent of how much oxytocin in any extent at all is increased?