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Alexandra Katehakis: Grown-Up Sex

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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The Dopamine Pattern in Sexual Behavior

The thinking is that it's this seeking of the sexual behavior, not the acquisition of yourself, that has someone get into these addictive loops. Dopamine is a neural hormone that lives deep in the middle part of the brain. And whenever something new or novel is sort of brought to us or that we see from the outside, that information comes in through the central nervous system.

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