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Tropical Tale No. 1 -
Vol. 3 - Happy Valentine's Day
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
The next time someone tells you that an
emotional affair "is all in your
head" tell them, you thought you
were madly in love and that it was all in
your "heart", but that they could be
right. Most likely, in your brain's
ventral tegmental area and caudate nucleus, two
areas involved in the release and reception of a
neurotransmitter called "dopamine."
A feeling that lovers describe as a "drug
high." Forbidden love, such as I
write about in FORBIDDEN PASSION, revs up your
levels of dopamine even more, making the illicit
affair more exciting and therefore more
enjoyable, and also elevates the production of
testosterone, associated with the sex drive in
men. This combination makes you do
irrational things to get more pleasure. Maybe
that is why men like to have affairs with
married women. I haven't researched that
yet as I am still doing my homework; but
when I get the clinical results, I will let you
know.
You even build up a tolerance to your
lover, therefore, the more contact you have
with him, the more you want. Something
akin to eating ice cream or chocolate.
Try just eating one spoonful and see how far
you get! Anthropologist Helen E. Fisher,
Ph.D. scanned the brains of several people
"madly in love" and when she tucked
them into an MRI machine, showing them
pictures of their sweethearts, their ventral
tegmental areas lit up like the 4th of July.
Maybe that is why in To Catch a Thief, when
Grace Kelly kissed Cary Grant, the screen lit
up in a blast of fireworks. Nowadays
the screen is graphically more explicit
leaving little to our imagination.
So on
this Valentine's Day when your darling
sends you a card, or flowers, and you turn
red, jump for joy, and almost explode with happiness, now
you know why.
And the secret is to
simply get more of you- know- what.
Alinka
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