Friday, January 7, 2011

of tears and chemicals

The National Public Radio (NPR) that wakes me up every morning was talking about how an Israeli research team found that tears may have a chemical influence on human beings. The experiment involved a comparison of the state of sexual excitement in men who had smelled collected womens tears and salt water collected after grazing womens cheeks. And it appears tears tone down levels of testosterone in men which indicates a decrease in anger/excitement and probably an increase in compassion caused by chemical signaling by the tears.

I understand the chemical signaling part, as there does not appear to be much other use for tears. I wonder if male tears affect females the same way, and if male tears affect males and female tears affect females. Now that's equality :P

PS: guess what google brought in: a lot of hot crying men...lol!

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