Love Is A Neeurochemical Case Study

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Love is a Neurochemical Con Job Theoretical concepts are those that our mind can create but do not physically present themselves in the real world. One of the most famous, as well as most commercialized, is love. Love has been heavily rationalized, from religion to chemicals to even illness, to the point ideologies exist in our society as ‘absolute’ or ‘normal’. The straying from this fabricated society is seen as wrong, or more recently, recklessly independent. From movements about being single or dating yourself to having a desire to be married before 30 is attributed to common culture that perpetuates specific ideologies that we must then chose. But why does this seeming irrational thing happen? Science of the mind, commonly known as psychology, …show more content…

The whole point of sleeping with someone is to have children. So wouldn’t diversifying how much you spread your genes be a good tactic to ensure survival? That’s where monogamy really come into play. There are two types of monogamy we talked about: social and sexual. Social referring to a partnership, while sexual refers to sex partner. The notion of social partnerships being monogamist has been reinforced for multiple generations and with help from social analytics, is feasibly plausible. Research has backed this phenomenon, but sexual monogamy is a different story. Sexual monogamy, or having one sex partner, is an act that defies our natural chemistry to procreate as much as possible. But this contradicts the principle of social monogamy, because we think the two go hand in hand. The reality is the two terms are fundamentally different and therefore, they have a hard time relating. Emotional dependency is a foundation for the modern relationship, while more and more, we stray from sex as a basic principle. That’s the problem: we are sexual creatures and require sexual elements in a relationship. Now this is not to say base it all off sex, but honor the fact that our bodies use sex as a physical connection to another person. To truly live out the biological demise we put ourselves in, we must learn about the components of a relationship and then work with

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