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The Anti-Love Potion
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by mazevedo | January 17, 2009 at 01:08 pm
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Dr. Young from Emory University has been extensively working on a potential love potion. According to his speculation love is sparkled by a "biochemical chain of events". If love is really biochemically based and a drug really is invented what would be the implications of that upon society and would be the implications of a reversed potion?
In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. Young predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink. That’s the bad news. The not-so-bad news is that you may enjoy this potion if you took it knowingly with the right person. But the really good news, as I see it, is that we might reverse-engineer an anti-love potion, a vaccine preventing you from making an infatuated ass of yourself. Although this love vaccine isn’t mentioned in Dr. Young’s essay, when I raised the prospect he agreed it could also be in the offing
The Anti-Love potion would essentially make humans unable to bond no matter how much one would try.
I doubt many people would want to permanently suppress love, but a temporary vaccine could come in handy. Spouses going through midlife crises would not be so quick to elope with their personal trainers; elderly widowers might consult their lawyers before marrying someone resembling Anna Nicole Smith. Love is indeed a many-splendored thing, but sometimes we all need to tie ourselves to the mast.
Which side are you on? Pro or Anti Love Potions?
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at 19:41 on January 17th, 2009
Don't people have enough trouble finding 'the one'? Do we really need a potion that helps us repel people!?
at 03:33 on January 18th, 2009
sometimes ppl are Not ment to be! and hurt each other...and ppl around them
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at 12:52 on January 18th, 2009
I think its called "ecstasy" :P (i never took it but it sounds like simliar)
Ok so i didn't read far enough its anti-love pills...well that sounds potentially dangerous...i dunno i'm skeptical but one thing is for sure you'll probably get some you heartless bastard :P j/k.