It appears Cupid’s arrows have been laced with oxytocin and vasopressin all along. It is what I imagine after reading a report in the New York Times by the neuroscientist Dr. Larry Young. Martial bliss of any kind can be a wonderful thing apparently if you’re with the right person, and have the right drugs.
Oxytocin is a hormone released naturally in fertile mammals, or in the case of Dr. Young’s research, in prairie voles, occurring naturally “during labor, delivery and nursing” aiding in mother-child bonding and also to one’s mate. Vassopressin on the other hand, stimulates the desire for nesting and bonding (released typically during sex and in some cases when injected artificially) which is found in male prairie voles. All this research has led Dr. Young to imagine a drug one day in the not too distant future that would enable humans to “fall in love” as easily as getting a yearly booster shot. Unfortunately until then, love in all its mysterious apparitions, joys, break-ups, and expressions will be found in poems and at the cinema. Read the article here to learn more about love’s evolution.
This leads us to Scott Bourne. From his bio we learn he was born in North Carolina, is an avid voyager, a professional skateboarder, and was a columnist for SLAP Magazine. He’s a poet, writer, and one time inhabitant of Mongolia where he chronicled his adventures there into his book Dirt Ollies. Adding to this are his travels on the Trans Siberian Railroad and more recently, as a novelist, publishing his first book entitled A Room with No Windows. He currently splits his time between the City of Lights and the City by the Bay. He is a vagabond of the heart and road, a lover who has been loved by women and loved many more in return. Wanderlust can be very seductive, for some of us it means we simply cannot sit still; for others it is to escape (something). For Bourne, suffering from what he described as “a wicked mean case of heartbreak,” wanderlust sent him to France. The end result is Cheating on the Metronome.
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