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A review by morgan_blackledge
The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction by Larry Young
4.0
This book is a blast! It's laugh out loud, nurdy, raunchy fun. It's well written and researched and it's as informative as it is entertaining. If you end up reading it, be prepared to bug the shit out of your friends with all the neurosmut factoids you'll be (over) sharing with them during the coming weeks.
I highly recommend this book, but with a word of caution. If you decide to read this thing, prepare to have (what's left of) your puerile, romantic mysterienism regarding love, sex and attraction dashed on the rocky shores of psychnuroendocrinology. If you would prefer to maintain a shred of ignorant bliss (no judgment either way), than skip this one and enjoy your blue pill. I think those things are chewable, yum!
If you're ready to eat the red pill (an often bitter but acquired taste), you will be rewarded by having some of your most nagging questions from junior high school answered (at last) and some of your doubtlessly shameful secrets completely demystified and normalized.
Hint; It ain't magic, it's nervous systems under the influence of happy, crappy and fappy chemicals, doing what they evolved to do. Which is basically to trick, cajole or otherwise bamboozle you into the otherwise loathsome chore of reproduction. Alas, we are (largely) meat puppets dangling from strings of neurons and chemistry.
If the "miracle" of love is your higher power, and you equate the cutaway gear meets gear view of things with base reductionism, than be wise and pass. But if you're like me, and you find plausible naturalistic, cause and effect explanations sexy and uplifting (sublime even), than you just found your next read!
I highly recommend this book, but with a word of caution. If you decide to read this thing, prepare to have (what's left of) your puerile, romantic mysterienism regarding love, sex and attraction dashed on the rocky shores of psychnuroendocrinology. If you would prefer to maintain a shred of ignorant bliss (no judgment either way), than skip this one and enjoy your blue pill. I think those things are chewable, yum!
If you're ready to eat the red pill (an often bitter but acquired taste), you will be rewarded by having some of your most nagging questions from junior high school answered (at last) and some of your doubtlessly shameful secrets completely demystified and normalized.
Hint; It ain't magic, it's nervous systems under the influence of happy, crappy and fappy chemicals, doing what they evolved to do. Which is basically to trick, cajole or otherwise bamboozle you into the otherwise loathsome chore of reproduction. Alas, we are (largely) meat puppets dangling from strings of neurons and chemistry.
If the "miracle" of love is your higher power, and you equate the cutaway gear meets gear view of things with base reductionism, than be wise and pass. But if you're like me, and you find plausible naturalistic, cause and effect explanations sexy and uplifting (sublime even), than you just found your next read!