Cymek said:
Same sex relationships for pleasure and different sex relationships for procreation makes a lot of sense, no unwanted babies as part of the equation. I know most people aren’t this way inclined, but its been used a few times in science fiction
that and a liking of humanity itself described as
an aesthetically/physical chemical attraction to the human form, where specifically, research as shown the following
Rewards of beauty: the opioid system mediates social motivation in humans
Facial attractiveness is a powerful cue that affects social communication and motivates sexual behavior.1, 2, 3 Attractive people are both judged4 and treated5 more positively, reflecting the biased stereotypical notion that ‘beautiful is good’. Indeed, beautiful faces are processed by the limbic reward system6 and according to the same economic principles as non-social rewards.7 The human reward system has a high density of μ-opioid receptors,8 which have an important role in affiliation and attachment.9, 10, 11 Here, we causally test whether the healthy human opioid system mediates facial attractiveness preference.
In rodents, μ-opioid (MOR) neurotransmission can increase both hedonic value (‘liking’) and motivational salience (‘wanting’) of rewards.12 When several rewards are available, MOR agonism increases and antagonism decreases preference specifically for the most valuable option. For instance, rats ate fewer palatable cookies but not less standard chow after MOR antagonism,13 while MOR stimulation enhanced sexual ‘wanting’ of only estrous, but not nonestrous, females.14 We predicted that antagonism of the human opioid system would decrease, while MOR agonism would increase ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’6 specifically for the evolutionarily most valuable option, namely attractive opposite-sex faces.
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you begin to see that there is more going on with chemicals under the hood so to speak
scientific observations are not made up like religious scripture, scientific processes are repeatable, can be communicated and validated by a second observation and a third etc