My Oxytocin Made Me Do It

It’s an old, old story.  Women equipped and gifted with an advantageous nurturing hormone (oxytocin– the orgasmic-bonding-empathy-cuddling-love chemical) produced in the brain and enhanced by kissing and physical contact- even hand-holding) that distorts women’s thinking and decision making, particularly their selection of life partners beyond any measure of logic or reason.

And so women are drawn towards the helpless, the stray dog, the lost cat; it’s what makes women willingly take care of...