Dopamine also greatly increases the psychological effect of "salience". Things seem to have greater importance or meaning so I believe that it is highly possible that people with differing dopamine levels find sex more or less of a meaningful or transcendent experience.
MJ, can you source this for me? Through trial and error, input both physiological and psychological with which I will not bore you, I have settled upon my dopamine levels as the key to my mental balance. So I would like to hear more .... I have also experienced what you reference, sex as a profoundly meaningful connection, which I discovered later was not necessarily shared ....
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert
Well, Watson is an idiot and a fraud. His female assistant did all the actual work on the DNA stuff. Clearly, since he is a very pale man he is just trying to come up with an excuse for why he could only ever get it up when spanked by a woman wearing orthopedic nurse shoes or something along those lines.
LOL Mojo - not quite. He didn't have a female assistant. He was a young postdoc at Cambridge with too much time on his hands, with a gift for listening to people much more brilliant than he and fitting many snatches of information into a cohesive whole. Which is also a genius of sorts.
What did happen is that he and Crick made use of x-ray work by Rosalind Franklin which showed the helix structure of the DNA possibly without her knowledge and permission, and failing to acknowledge her contribution in the Nobel acceptance speech.
He's also said a lot of silly things in his life. Unfortunately, being a genius in one area doens't make one immune from being extremely stupid in others. Hence, his remarks about race and IQ.
