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Is it is chance love or cold hard sex?
Science is proving that love, very much like sex, is in fact scientifically measurable:
The human brain looking for a compatible mate is predominately guided by the natural human evolutional cycle and this may remain a never changing constant in our psyche. Humans don't just mate with anyone, the human brain has a lot to do with the distinction of the overpowering passion for lustful sex and the potent emotion of romantic love.
The fact that both sexes of the intelligent human race want sex and love is well known but there is a third underlined notion in human sexuality that keeps it all together and it is usually camouflaged in law or disguised with cultural traditions: marriage (monogamous attachment). The natural urge to reproduce and populate the earth almost has no place in today's overpopulated planet making the quest for a monogamous relationship with a mate more complex and intertwined with social status, health, physical appearance and overall likability.
In the first beginning stages of attraction, it is believed, and often publicly displayed in society, that males are 'visually aroused' and that females are 'personality and character inclined'. Even though modern society has somewhat changed the mating ritual rules with the passing of time, and continues to do so, one thing is certain in the quest to psycho analyze sexual behavior: the basis of attraction still stems from a primitive urge to reproduce. The need to create healthy offspring and all the social conditions people perceive as normal may simply be a cumulative evolution from this innate instinct embedded in the wiring of the human behavioral brain. In psychology experiments with children, beauty (the basis of attraction) was defined with balanced facial symmetry and also body measurements seemed to play a crucial role in defining someone as pretty or handsome. In studies with adult men, the balanced size ratio of a waist and breasts ranked very high in the preferability choice where in studies with adult women a deep voice and broad shoulders were popular factors of finding someone attractive.
The statistical data supports scientific research that the hormonal development of the female body promotes features that males find favorable in their quest to reproduce; women whose oestrogen hormones helped produce pronounced hips and breast also physically have the likelihood of bearing healthy children and the ability to provide ample breast milk to feed them. Men whose testosterone have favored them with a masculine voice and muscular physiques statistically have stronger immune systems that promotes them to their females counterparts as a wise choice for a mate with a promise of a plausible ability to give them healthy strong children.
For this reason the human body is determined by hormones making the human physique, in essence, an upright walking billboard for reproductive sex but it doesn't stop there, scientists conducted several experiments on University student athletes to determine if the smell of a mate also plays a contributing factor. It was determined that on a subconscious level, the human nose can detect compatible genes and even body symmetry simply by the scent of another which may explain the mysterious physical attraction to someone. The research shows that as the nose is trying to decipher the airborne molecules exuding from sweaty armpit glands (pheromones) the deciphering brain sparks its own coded signals to attract the sought out partner thus making an innate histocompatibility connection (a distinct realization of having the same or similar sets of genes) whereas the human brain plays an integral role in the evolutionary quest for the perfect mate.
So this may explain the sexual attraction of a mate but what holds the relationship together, can science explain love?
As the logical brain settles its neurotransmitters produced in sexual arousal and orgasm between two lovers, it is believed that a need for a bond is also triggered like a secondary evolutionary sense that ensures more of the same pleasurable experience. Theories vary that it is manifested in the need to cuddle after love making or when offspring are born the need to help raise them creating an unbreakable family bond based on fondness. This emotion acts like a reward and stimulates the same part of the brain chemistry in needing or wanting something similar to an appetite, hunger or addiction.
The romantic love chemicals that overwhelm the human brain and even trigger the human physiology all seem to serve the purpose of the continuation of the human species. These chemicals may even alter accordingly to encourage lust to turn into sex and evolve into love.
In conclusion, the human reproduction process may be very intoxicating. The next time you are out for drinks looking for the perfect mate, even though the alcohol may be to blame for releasing the natural sexual urges you are feeling and for increasing your social confidence.. remember that ultimately it is the 'hormonal cocktail' in the human brain that will determine the one you fall in love with.
