The author met an actress who said she's had orgasms on stage, and that sex fuels her creativity. Then the author surveyed 16,000 women on facebook to see how sex was correlated with creativity, confidence, and energy.
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Women from many different backgrounds e-mailed me in droves. Many women spoke of unusually profound orgasms—not the everyday kind—as experiences that were followed with a sense of unusual power, energy, and confidence
Well this is unfair. When men have an orgasm we just want to take a nap.
The next chapter is about dopamine, opioids, and oxytocin. I think we're running into some psuedoscience now:
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Dr. Helen Fisher, anthropologist and author of Anatomy of Love, found that romantic love is not an emotion—it is an overwhelmingly powerful part of the “motivation system” of the brain—a drive, part of the reward system of the brain. Dr. Fisher found that romantic love has three different chemical components: lust, composed of androgens and estrogens; attraction, driven by high dopamine and norepinephrine levels and low serotonin (this accounts for mood swings in early courtship); and finally, attachment, made up of oxytocin and vasopressin.
The footnote says this book was published in 1992, but it's still annoying that people who research this stuff don't know the difference between romantic and sexual attraction.