Why do straight men devote so much headspace to those
big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women's chests?
Scientists have never satisfactorily explained men's curious
breast fixation, but now, a neuroscientist has struck upon
an explanation that he says "just makes a lot of sense."
Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University
who studies the neurological basis of complex social
behaviors, thinks human evolution has harnessed an
ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen
the mother-infant bond during breast-feeding, and now uses
this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples
as well. The result? Men, like babies, love breasts.
When a woman's nipples are stimulated during breast-
feeding, the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as
the "love drug ," floods her brain, helping to focus her
attention and affection on her baby. But research over the
past few years has shown that in humans, this circuitry
isn't reserved for exclusive use by infants.
Recent studies have found that nipple stimulation enhances
sexual arousal in the great majority of women, and it
activates the same brain areas as vaginal and clitoral
stimulation. When a sexual partner touches, massages or
nibbles a woman's breasts, Young said, this triggers the
release of oxytocin in the woman's brain, just like what
happens when a baby nurses. But in this context, the
oxytocin focuses the woman's attention on her sexual
partner, strengthening her desire to bond with this person.
In other words, men can make themselves more desirable
by stimulating a woman's breasts during pre-intimacy and sex.
Evolution has, in a sense, made men want to do this.
Attraction to breasts "is a brain organization effect that
occurs in straight males when they go through puberty,"
Young told Life's Little Mysteries. "Evolution has selected
for this brain organization in men that makes them
attracted to the breasts in a sexual context, because the
outcome is that it activates the female bonding circuit,
making women feel more bonded with him. It's a behavior
that males have evolved in order to stimulate the female's
maternal bonding circuitry.
www.meddybear.net/blog/entry/new-theory-on-why-men-love-breasts.html

hmmm..insightful

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I see...

Ho

So, I'm normal afterall.

Thanks for this...it explains a lot. And I also learnt something new to add to my arsenal of love making techniques.