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    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1466943.html


    Real-Life ‘Love Pills' That Save Marriages 'Could Soon Be A Reality'
    The Huffington Post UK | By Kyrsty Hazell
    Posted: 01/05/2012 15:04 Updated: 01/05/2012 15:04


    Oxford University researchers believe real-life 'love pills' - that solve common marital woes and keep the passion alive - could soon be making their way into a marriage counselling session near you.

    Despite the fact that marriage is having a comeback after 40 years of decline – we’re still 200 more likely to file for divorce than a century ago.

    According to recent figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), recession-hit couples do try and stick together, but marital disharmony (caused by the pressures of job losses, uncertainty about the future and rising debt) often gets the better of them, causing divorce numbers to soar.

    And with weekly reminders about high-profile unions, such as loved-up (and extremely wealthy) Heidi Klum and Seal hitting the rocks, combined with the worrying fact that one in three men don't marry for love - is it any wonder we struggle to keep the love alive?

    But before you give up on love altogether, consider this – could the solution lie in a simple pill?

    Not that pill (the contraceptive type that apparently alters a woman’s love for her partner) but a drug that is a potent concoction of essential neurohormones that make us fall – and stay – giddy in love.

    According to a team of neuroethnicists, who have written an in-depth paper about the possibilities of a psychopharmaceutical ‘love drug’ - this could well be the future of marriage counselling.

    Yes, soon you’ll be able to cut out the middle-man (the Relate counsellor) and get a prescription for love. Perhaps.

    In Neuroenhancement of Love and Marriage: The Chemicals Between Us, Oxford University researchers Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg claim that scientists may soon be able to interfere with the biology of human attraction with the help of chemical blockers and enhancers.

    To do this, they would have to create a pill that contains the “modulators of love”, which could potentially help us stay together longer, increase attractiveness and decrease infidelity.

    The essential ‘ingredients’ of the pill are:

    Pheromones

    These are odourless chemicals that trigger emotion responses, mainly sexual and attractiveness, between the opposite sex. If this was popped into a pill, it could potentially help people maintain the attraction they first felt for their partner.

    Oxytocin and Vasopressin

    Also known as the ‘bonding chemicals’, oxytocin and vasaopressin are hormones released in the body that promote physical bonding. The brain releases a high amount of these hormones during the early, romantic stages of a relationship. If these hormones were present in a pill, they could strengthen the sense of togetherness and bonds between couples.

    Testosterone

    High levels of testosterone increase the amount of sexual desire between the opposite sex. A testosterone-induced pill could aid flagging libidos.

    CRH

    Although this hormone (corticotropin-releasing hormone) can sometimes cause depression and anxiety, it also creates the fear of separation, which can help deepen the bond between two people.

    Entactogens

    This drug (found in MDMA pills like ecstasy) creates the feeling of openness and the desire for emotional closeness, claims the paper. This could increase the connection and sociability between people if it was present in a pill.

    Would you give it a go?

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    Oh my god! I had horrible images passing through my mind as I read this.
    Images of gay people being pressured to use this as a way of "curing" them.
    Images of abused spouses being pressured to take this...or secretely given it as a way of "encouraging" them to "work things out" with their abusive partners.
    Images of "friends" or roomies who want 'more', slipping it into drinks or food.
    Images of people having adverse reactions in which they become possessive, controlling, and violent in order to "keep" the one that they "love".

    I wish we would stop fucking around with this kind of stuff. (even though I know it can really help some people.)
    Actually, I have more of a problem with the ethics of using/pushing wonder pills and genetic modifications.
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    This is horrible.
    And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.


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    it would definitely be abused, lol.

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    You know people would kill to use this, can't wait to dose someone's coffee..

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    Quote Originally Posted by hkkmr View Post
    You know people would kill to make this, can't way to dose someone's coffee..
    Doesn't mean they would fall in love with the person administering it though. Hm...
    And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.


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    Quote Originally Posted by fenryrr View Post
    Doesn't mean they would fall in love with the person administering it though. Hm...
    This has never stopped anyone before.

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    It or something similar will appear sooner or later, and it will pose challenges, problems, solutions and controversy. Such is the nature of technology.

    I also want to mention that I like MDMA.
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    Wonder what the price is going to be, hope not too high so that Fi polrs won't go bankrupt or Fe creatives for that matter.

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    wouldn't this work as an anti-depressant? I'm interested. Now I just need a mock husband.

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    Why would it make you want to love one specific person? Maybe everybody would just love everybody?

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    This is wrong. Fake love?

    The problem is that married people forget their vows once the initial romance wears off, and apparently that giddy feeling was all they wanted out of the relationship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by munenori2 View Post
    Why would it make you want to love one specific person? Maybe everybody would just love everybody?
    Maybe it would contribute to more people having affairs...

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    I wonder what happens if you give it to your pets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    This is wrong. Fake love?

    The problem is that married people forget their vows once the initial romance wears off, and apparently that giddy feeling was all they wanted out of the relationship.
    What if marriage became a non-legal entity?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bionicgerbil View Post
    I wonder what happens if you give it to your pets.
    I sure hope you don't own a pet snake.

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    I don't like the thought of giving something like this to an animal. They have no preparation or warning or means to deal since they don't understand what's happened. It could do damage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jadae View Post
    What if marriage became a non-legal entity?
    I don't think I would mind.

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    Finally, consensual date rape! awwwwwwwwww riiiiiiiiiiiite
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    I'd try it like five or six times. Sounds like fun.


    Quote Originally Posted by anndelise View Post
    Oh my god! I had horrible images passing through my mind as I read this.
    Images of gay people being pressured to use this as a way of "curing" them.
    Images of abused spouses being pressured to take this...or secretely given it as a way of "encouraging" them to "work things out" with their abusive partners.
    Images of "friends" or roomies who want 'more', slipping it into drinks or food.
    Images of people having adverse reactions in which they become possessive, controlling, and violent in order to "keep" the one that they "love".

    I wish we would stop fucking around with this kind of stuff. (even though I know it can really help some people.)
    Actually, I have more of a problem with the ethics of using/pushing wonder pills and genetic modifications.
    That is scary but I don't think it would work that way. Maybe it would but I would think a gay man would just be randomly in love with another gay man, he still probably wouldn't be attracted to women.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JWC3 View Post
    That is scary but I don't think it would work that way. Maybe it would but I would think a gay man would just be randomly in love with another gay man, he still probably wouldn't be attracted to women.
    I imagine it as given in an enclosed environment where a gay person was placed alone with a member of the opposite sex. Or multiple members of opposite sex. Or being forced to watch porn involving the opposite sex. Etc. They're talking about messing with pheremone responses, bonding chemicals, testosterone, etc. i don't think it would "cure" gayness...but I can easily imagine anti-gay people thinking it could. Especially if you "catch them when they are young" and don't have many experiences to draw from. The brain being more malleable.

    But what it would do to those kids...omg, that's just too much fucked-upness to contemplate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anndelise View Post
    I imagine it as given in an enclosed environment where a gay person was placed alone with a member of the opposite sex. Or multiple members of opposite sex. Or being forced to watch porn involving the opposite sex. Etc. They're talking about messing with pheremone responses, bonding chemicals, testosterone, etc. i don't think it would "cure" gayness...but I can easily imagine anti-gay people thinking it could. Especially if you "catch them when they are young" and don't have many experiences to draw from. The brain being more malleable.

    But what it would do to those kids...omg, that's just too much fucked-upness to contemplate.
    Hopefully it's prescription only.
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    Hah, nice to know I wasn't the only one who thought of slipping it in someone's coffee.

    http://oxytocinaccelerator.com/
    ^ makes me think of that.

    I have a friend who uses it to help ease her Asperger Syndrome. Not only does it work for her, but apparently other people noticed something was up when she suddenly stopped for a day-- like it affected her body language, pheromones, or something along those lines.

    I don't dare screw with my oxytocin though.
    Okay, I'm lying, I'd experiment with it. I'd probably avoid prolonged contact with certain people though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by octo View Post
    It actually reminds me a lot of the advice that my first year psych lecturer gave to us - if you want a second date with someone, make sure your first date is spent doing something adrenaline-inducing. They'll confuse the panicky feeling with the giddy rush of love
    I have heard of this before.
    I don't know whether going out drinking works in a similar fashion.
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    That can perhaps reverse the numbing effect SSRI have on love felling,great. Outside that, bwaaaaaa..
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    They should make a movie about someone who wakes up one day and doesn't take the pill after having made a decision early in life to take the pill to make things better.

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    It would become the next Viagra, and exploited for much the same purpose: marathon orgies and quickies. It will not make people fall in love with any ONE person: any person thus encountered while under the pill's influence would become an object of attraction.

    Basically it makes you more liberal, more altruistic, and bi.

    Though what it really sounds like is a party drug.

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    What if it happen to be the next big things, like LSD was, or extasy more recently ? New drug arrival, when cultural condition is favorable, and/or when it promise to fill a hole in current trend, can lead to the birth of big things, like LSD have done with hippie/new age culture, or MDMA with the worldly diffusion of techno culture/music.

    The moral background of this stuff is really shitty, but what is the impact of moral in these days. And sometime, the question can even be what is moral behind the excitation of the new.
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    I forsee hairy women.

    Also, can it make one love themself more? I supposed that is why opposing immunities influence pheromones, unless, of course, youre southern style and cousin lovin =D

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