Sex Love and Survival
Love has a survival advantage because it promotes pairing for survival of a species, and it is an ideal setting for the care and protection of young children. Friendship and real social networks are important for promoting health and well being. We know a lot about the transmitters involved in “falling in love,” and a lot about the corresponding brain circuits. Phenylethylanine and dopamine involved in the initial euphoria which probably acts in the pathways between the limbic system concerned…