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Wish your husband or boyfriend would show his caring side
more often?
Scientists could have the answer to your prayers - and it's a lot simpler
than you might think.
They have come up with a spray that makes men more affectionate and in tune
with others' feelings.
Just a puff or two of the so-called 'cuddle chemical' and even the most
macho of males is as sensitive as a woman, they
claim.
The spray is based on oxytocin - a hormone naturally made in the body and
involved in sex, sexual attraction, trust and confidence.
It is released into the blood during labour - triggering the production of
breast milk - and floods the brain during breastfeeding, helping mother and
baby bond.
In spray form, it seems the chemical can make a man 'feel' like a woman.
The Cambridge and German scientists gave 24 healthy men nasal sprays
containing oxytocin while 24 others received a placebo.
Afterwards the men were shown heart-wrenching photographs including a little
girl in tears, a child embracing a cat and a man in mourning, and asked them
to describe the level of empathy they felt with those in the pictures.
'The oxytocin group showed significantly higher emotional empathy levels
than those men who had taken the placebo,' said Dr Rene Hurlemann, of the
Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn.
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