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Cuddle hormone in a spray
« on: April 29, 2010, 11:53:40 AM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1269781/Scientists-develop-spray-make-men-affectionate-using-cuddle-hormone-oxytocin.html

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Scientists have invented what women want in a man - the sensitivity spray.

They say it is capable of turning the most macho of hunks into a dewy-eyed baby-kisser who says all the right things and stops going down the pub.

Researchers of the Neuromudlation of Emotion - NEMO - faculty at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn say the spray uses the hormone oxytocin, sometimes called 'the cuddle chemical' as it stimulates affectionate feelings in humans.

The scientists worked with researchers at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and the results of their work are published today FRI in the Journal of Neuroscience.

In experiments, 24 healthy men took nasal sprays containing oxytocin while 24 others received a placebo.

Afterwards the guinea pigs were shown 'emotionally loaded' photographs including a crying child, a young girl embracing a cat and a man in mourning.

The participants were than asked to describe the level of empathy they felt with the subjects in the pictures.
SO JUST WHAT IS THE 'CUDDLE CHEMICAL'?

Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone which evokes feelings of contentment and reduces anxiety.

It is best know for its roles in female reproduction and is released in large amounts during labour and breastfeeding. It also helps mothers to bond with their offspring.

The same hormone is even reported to help alleviate some symptoms of autism by encouraging sufferers to initiate social encounters.

'The oxytocin group showed significantly higher emotional empathy levels than those men who had taken the placebo,' said Dr. René Hurlemann in Bonn.

He said they reached the 'levels of sensitivity usually found in females.'

In a second experiment the participants had to answer simple questions on a computer.  The right answers were accompanied by smiley faces, the wrong ones with frowns.

Dr Keith Kendrick of the Babraham Insititute said that the cuddle-drug recipients scored much higher as they responded to the friendly faces in an elevated way.

'Our study shows for the first time that the emotional projecting ability of oxytocin can be created,' added Dr. Hurlemann.

He said it may prove valuable in the treatment of schizophrenia, which is often accompanied by an inability to connect with others and social retreat.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1269781/Scientists-develop-spray-make-men-affectionate-using-cuddle-hormone-oxytocin.html#ixzz0mVMiwQ00

So... Rohipnol is the date-rape drug stereotypically used by men to spike women's drinks at bars.  Then there are pheremone-charged colognes that got lady-kind all up in arms, that we evil men were using chemical warfare to plunder the bodies of wimmins.

Would this be spoon-rape?  Cuddle-rape?

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2010, 11:58:33 AM »
Would this be spoon-rape?  Cuddle-rape?


Sucker punch.

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2010, 02:20:24 PM »
I wonder how hard it is to synthisize...or maybe they just farm it from animals?

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2010, 03:07:08 PM »
Ok.
So where's the spray that tricks women into using the cuddle spray on me?
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2010, 03:14:47 PM »
Ok.
So where's the spray that tricks women into using the cuddle spray on me?

Maybe if you were more sensitive you wouldn't need to drug them :P

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2010, 03:18:13 PM »
There is already a way to do this:  buy a man some beer.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2010, 03:20:00 PM »
There is already a way to do this:  buy a man some beer.


Cheaper way to do it:  Show up naked.

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2010, 03:38:18 PM »
I wonder how hard it is to synthisize...or maybe they just farm it from animals?

Would that make farm animals extra cuddly, and would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2010, 03:42:19 PM »
The doctors that came up with this should be required to hand in their man cards.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2010, 03:44:45 PM »
Maybe if you were more sensitive you wouldn't need to drug them :P
Stfu.  I'm extremely sensitive.

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2010, 04:33:26 PM »
Would that make farm animals extra cuddly, and would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

I cuddle with my horse  =D
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2010, 04:59:39 PM »
I cuddle with my horse  =D
Male or female horses?
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2010, 05:11:18 PM »
Of all the forums in all the internet how could you guys not think of weaponizing it! We could have the entire middle east cuddling by 2011!  :lol:

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2010, 05:24:05 PM »
Of all the forums in all the internet how could you guys not think of weaponizing it! We could have the entire middle east cuddling by 2011!  :lol:

Sounds like a great way to end up with Reavers.

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2010, 05:30:36 PM »
Male or female horses?


The two geldings mostly.

The mare is a bitch  =D
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2010, 05:41:43 PM »
Yes but does it work on furries?
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« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2010, 05:49:29 PM »
I consider this a WMD and will consider the use of nuclear weapons in response....NUKE THE NUZZLES!!! 
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2010, 05:52:35 PM »
Oxytocin is essentially a human-made painkiller/mood enhancer. It's the compound that pregnant mothers are saturated with, why they love their babies.

If it is released OTC or via prescription, I'll scream a little. Can't get heroin, but you can get THAT? ???
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2010, 06:05:15 PM »
I can think of some uses for that.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2010, 06:07:07 PM »
I can think of some uses for that.

...And the opportunistic man-eater demographic of APS chimes in (besides Mabs). =D

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2010, 06:07:21 PM »
I can think of some uses for that.

That's the issue.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2010, 06:09:15 PM »
Am I the only guy who like to cuddle...?

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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2010, 06:11:21 PM »
Man card confiscated for admitting you like to cuddle in public.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2010, 06:14:14 PM »
The two geldings mostly.

The mare is a bitch  =D
Sounds gay.
...And the opportunistic man-eater demographic of APS chimes in (besides Mabs). =D

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Sunday it felt a little better, but it was quite irritated from me rubbing it.
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Re: Cuddle hormone in a spray
« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2010, 06:20:08 PM »
Of all the forums in all the internet how could you guys not think of weaponizing it! We could have the entire middle east cuddling by 2011!  :lol:
I'm pretty sure cuddling is a violation of Shariah law.