Important News: Hormone Spray Makes Men Go All Cuddly

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Important News: Hormone Spray Makes Men Go All Cuddly

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It’s an age-old complaint, at least judging by the highly scientific content found in women’s magazines: Men just aren’t snuggly enough and, what’s more, they don’t empathize enough either. Hmph! But a hormone-laced nasal spray might change all that for the better. —KA

BBC:

A nasal spray can make men more in tune with other people’s feelings, say a team of German and UK researchers.

They found that inhaling the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin made men just as empathetic as women.

The study in 48 volunteers also showed that the spray boosted the ability to learn from positive feedback.

Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers said the spray may be useful for boosting behaviour therapy in conditions such as schizophrenia.

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By brian, May 2, 2010 at 12:21 am Link to this comment
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People need to stop trying to turn men in to women. When did people decide that the traits of being male are bad? We don’t act like women because we are not women.
Women celebrate their traits but god forbid a male celebrates theirs.

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By hidflect, April 30, 2010 at 7:50 pm Link to this comment

The side affect seems to be an unnatural attraction to animals…

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By Artful Dodger, April 30, 2010 at 6:35 pm Link to this comment
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As a member of the elite of criminal master minds I would like see how we can make people trust our puppet governments the world over. (Evil laugh.) I think an oxytocin analogue would be just the ticket. We could use it in our aerosol atmospheric research program. (He,he, he!) Yes, yes. This would be the stuff we need before we could open our civilian work internship program at our FEMA camps. This would be so much the better to announce the reional government of the American hemisphere. Yes, distrust of the authorities is a mental illness, and we have the medicine for it. (Long sinister laugh.)

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