hope for us slash writers!

[farad]

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

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[boogieshoes]

eh, sexual preference is really a no-brainer. for one thing, per Kinsey half a century ago, the high probability is that almost 80% of us are bi-sexual to some degree or other. *most* of us trend towards the opposite sex for activities, but are actually attracted to members of both sexes. in the western world, the major reason for this is social conditioning: we're conditioned to think it's somehow wrong to want sex with someone who's our same physical gender.

and since 90% of our tv shows portray the 'average american', those characters are *also* steeped in that peer/social pressure.

but the truth is, the truly straight (*no* attraction to members of the same sex) and the truly gay (never even thought about the opposite sex that way) are the ones who are rare. the 'het majority' is a false majority, enforced by social customs.

-bs

[farad]

the 'het majority' is a false majority, enforced by social customs.

Oh, exactly! Which is why it's great to see that love and lust are not part of the same brain response, but that 'love' is, in many ways, a 'learned' response. It sort of gives credence to the 'slash' trope that if two men have sex enough, even with women around, they will eventually prefer to be with each other. *G*

though the great all-consuming passion is more fun to write . . .

Good thoughts! Thanks!

[huntersglenn]

It doesn't surprise me too much that sex would register in the same place as the pleasure from a drug - and not too surprising that one can 'learn' to love the person they're having sex with. But even sexual preference can be put aside if needed - for us, that would be desert island-type scenario. Nobody else around but the other guy, so why not?

[farad]

yeah, Boogie pointed out the hypothesis that most people are bisexual which certainly lends itself to the idea that in situations where the opposite sex is absent or limited in number, people will turn to their own gender, not matter how 'het' they are. The desert island scenario, prison fics - heck, even the Old West!