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CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
...America's 77 million baby boomers are coming of age--old age. In two years the first offspring of the post--World War II generation (born from 1946 to 1964) will turn 60. What will that mean for the sons and daughters of the Age of Aquarius? Will passion diminish? Will performance decline or (gasp!) wither away...
...balky erections, Viagra alone may not suffice. "Men feel they're expected to perform, which can create a situation called spectatoring," explains Tampa's Dr. Saks. "Rather than being in the game and enjoying the passion, you become a spectator, watching and observing and anxious, worrying about your performance and your partner's acceptance. You can't get an erection even with Viagra." One answer may be more direct stimulation by a sympathetic, caring partner. "You have to start slowly, with touching, and take the pressure off," says Saks. "People make sex too much work...
...working hypothesis was that three related chemicals in the brain--dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin--play a role in romantic passion. I speculated that the feelings of euphoria, sleeplessness and loss of appetite as well as the lover's intense energy, focused attention and increased passion in the face of adversity might all be caused in part by heightened levels of dopamine or norepinephrine in the brain. Similarly, I believed that the lover's obsessive thinking about the beloved might be due to decreased brain activity of some type of serotonin. I also knew these three compounds were much more prevalent...
...this point, I interviewed each candidate. My first question was always the same: "How long have you been in love?" My second question was the most important: "What percentage of the day and night do you think about your sweetheart?" Because obsessive thinking is a central ingredient of romantic passion, I sought only participants who thought about their beloved almost all their waking hours. I also looked for men and women who laughed and sighed more than usual during the interview...