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Love begins with sex.
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
While poets and writers preach that love begins to grow from the heart, scientists have discovered that it grows directly from passion, i.e. it begins to intensify after sexual contact. And this happens at the brain level. Thus, a new study has proven that the same areas of the brain that control love also control sexual desire. Thus, sexual desire can turn into love. This is true. If a woman has sex with a man, she can soon fall in love with him.
Researchers at Concordia University in Montreal say that love and sex are intertwined, but they are different. For example, you can have sex without love. But sex can also be the beginning of a wonderful relationship. So how does it all work? The central lobe and striatum play a role in both sexual attraction and love. The central lobe influences emotions, and the striatum receives messages from the cerebral cortex. To connect sex and love, the researchers looked at 20 MRI studies. They looked at the areas of the brain that light up when a person is in love. Then they compared the results of all the studies and found which parts of the brain were active.
Thus, they managed to find out that both love and sexual desire overlap in both parts of the brain. What is interesting is that during orgasm and anticipation of a very tasty dessert, the same signal lights up in the brain. As for love, its signal is the same as that of a drug addict when taking a drug. However, the most interesting thing is the relationship between sexual passion and love. These feelings are not separate. And, of course, even if love at first sight happened, it will certainly not remain platonic for long, and after sex it will flare up with greater force.
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