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The Oxytocin Role for Men

If they have found a remedy or answer to the attraction of men to opposite sex, how about the attraction of women to opposite? Here is the study.. A new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that when men in relationships are given oxytocin, they stay a farther distance away from unknown, attractive women. "Previous animal research in prairie voles identified oxytocin as major key formonogamous fidelity in animals," study researcher Dr. Rene Hurlemann, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Bonn, said in a statement. "Here, we provide the first evidence that oxytocin may have a similar role for humans." The study included 86 healthy, heterosexual men, and was broken into several parts. For one part, researchers administered either a nasal spray of oxytocin, or a placebo nasal spray to the men (about half of whom were single, while the other half were in committed relationships). Then, 45 minutes later, an attractive woman came up to the men. In some...