You're right, as usual, Mq, about oxytocin being released during childbirth because the cervix is stimulated. It's also released during nursing and contributed to milk letdown.
Perhaps other hormones, too. We shouldn't forget for a minute that we don't know all there is to know about medicine (or anything else).
As for whether that contributes to lack of bonding, sorry, not at all a new theory.
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I did find, and print out, a while back, the name of the hormone released during orgasm that makes one feel sleepy and fall asleep, but it's in one of my paper stacks and right now there are too many paper stacks to put my finger on it. At any rate, that particular hormone isn't oxytocin, but oxytocin is one of the many hormones are involved in sexual relations and reproduction.
But what I've read is that women experience a release of oxytocin during intercourse that makes them bond with the man but not necessarily vice versa, which may explain caddishness.
Not being male, I don't know what makes some men want to cuddle after sex, and some men want to jump up and get dressed and go home. My guess is that it's multifactorial, some men are like that all the time, and some men are like that when they've just had sex with the wrong woman.
Maybe there's a Nobel Prize in explaining that. |
