ONE SMART GOD:

Love's strange effect on people (BBC, 5/05/04)

Italian researchers carried out tests on 12 men and 12 women who had fallen in love during the previous six months.

They found that men had lower levels of testosterone than normal, while the women had higher levels of the hormone than usual.

"Men, in some way, had become more like women, and women had become like men," Donatella Marazziti of the University of Pisa told New Scientist magazine.

"It's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, because it's more important to survive at this stage," she said.

So much for homosexuality being just like normal love.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2004 9:00 AM