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Originally Posted by Astrocloud
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7548
People tend to justify their actions after the fact. No matter what the real justification was. I'm wondering if women's insistence that sex is "more emotional" for them -is some sort of overcompensation for what is really going on... -that they feel absolutely no emotions whatsoever.
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Typical male response
There's more to sex than orgasm, silly - all this study said was that at the moment of orgasm, there are certain parts of the brain that are normally associated with other functions (e.g., emotion) that show a marked decrease in activity. That's not to say that there's not a hell of a lot more emotion going on before and after. I know I've had orgasms that have released a veritable FLOOD of emotion afterward - from giggle fits to hysterical crying. I might not have been focused on the emotions while I was actually having an orgasm, but boy were they present afterward. And that's not even dealing with the emotional aspects of foreplay, partner selection, blah blah blah. I'm sure there are plenty of women for whom sex is just sex, and lots of men for whom emotion plays a bigger role in sex than they might be willing to admit. Studying one aspect of sex doesn't begin to address the complexity of it.