hope for us slash writers!
A good friend of mine posted the link to this wonderful article which pretty much corroborates what a lot of us writers who slash guys who are canonically het have argued all along: yes, sex, especially good sex, can lead to love.
"The researchers discovered that love and sexual desire appear to activate different areas of the striatum. Sexual desire lights up the area that's activated by things that are pleasurable, like sex and food. Love, meanwhile, activates an area that's involved in the process of conditioning. This is the effect of having feelings paired with reward or pleasure. Consequently, as feelings of sexual desire develop into love, they are processed in a different place in the striatum -- the exact same area that's associated with drug addiction."
The articles goes on to qualify what this means, but as I read it, over time, one can develop a 'habit' of wanting to be with someone that is 'love'.
So yes, it is possible for het Chris Larabee to 'learn to love' someone with whom he is having really good sex. Granted, there's still the whole issue of sexual preference, but - still. It's a start. *g* We just need a desert island or an all-male prison or an apocalypse or - well, you get the picture.
"The researchers discovered that love and sexual desire appear to activate different areas of the striatum. Sexual desire lights up the area that's activated by things that are pleasurable, like sex and food. Love, meanwhile, activates an area that's involved in the process of conditioning. This is the effect of having feelings paired with reward or pleasure. Consequently, as feelings of sexual desire develop into love, they are processed in a different place in the striatum -- the exact same area that's associated with drug addiction."
The articles goes on to qualify what this means, but as I read it, over time, one can develop a 'habit' of wanting to be with someone that is 'love'.
So yes, it is possible for het Chris Larabee to 'learn to love' someone with whom he is having really good sex. Granted, there's still the whole issue of sexual preference, but - still. It's a start. *g* We just need a desert island or an all-male prison or an apocalypse or - well, you get the picture.