Sentences with phrase «cements pair bonds»
He says Ecstasy users are under the influence of a massive surge of oxytocin — the brain's «love» hormone, normally released during nursing or orgasm — which cements pair bonds.
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One hypothesis is that oxytocin release during key pair - bonding events like sexual climax or childbirth helps cement the image of a partner or a newborn in the mind's eye.
Some evolutionary theorists, including Desmond Morris, maintain that human female orgasm was adaptive because it helped cement the «pair - bond» between ancestral parents that was necessary to ensure the survival of vulnerable infants.