Julius Fast – Sexual Chemistry

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• Julius Fast – Sexual ChemistryResearch psychologists in the United States and Germany have established that there is a sound biological basis for the phenomenon of sexual chemistry.

• When we are sexually aroused, or when we meet someone who interests us intensely, when we experience that moment of understanding, our sympathetic nervous system begins to create the hormone norepinephrine in our nerve endings and in our adrenal glands.

• Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz, assistant professor of clini – cal psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, has done a great deal of research into the biological mechanisms that involve sexual chemistry.

• “Love depends on powerful perturbations of our normal brain chemicals,” he has stated, and he points out that there are more than thirty neurotransmit- ters that bridge the synapses in our nerve cells.Two of these, norepinephrine and dopamine, affect the pleasure center in the brain and are directly responsible for what we feel when we fall in love.

• Our breath comes faster, and there is a feeling of euphoria, a rapid pulse, a compulsion to talk, and a type of comfortable aggression that allows us to make advances we would ordinarily be too shy to consider.