This is what love does to your brain
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What happens to your brain on love? Is there such a thing as “casual sex”? What do we get wrong about male and female sexuality? An expert explains. VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF
What happens to your brain on love? Is there such a thing as “casual sex”? What do we get wrong about male and female sexuality?
Fisher is a biological anthropologist, the chief scientific adviser to the dating site Match, and the author of several books including Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love.
She’s written six books about human sexuality, gender differences in the brain, and how cultural trends shape our views of sex, love, and attachment. Fisher, in other words, has spent a lot of time thinking about the role of sex and love in human life.
So I reached out to her to find out what she has learned and how it undercuts a lot of our conventional ideas about sexuality and gender.
I also wanted to know what distinguishes love from attachment, and why she thinks there are three simple things you can to do maintain a happy relationship.
Helen Fisher
It’s a fascinating question. My colleagues and I put over 100 people who had recently fallen in love into the brain scanner to understand what’s going on in their brains.
