Giovanni Frazzetto- How We Feet What neuroscience can and can’t tel us about our emo…

Neuroscience is the new genetics: we turn to it to explain who we are and why we behave the way we do. Particularly, as this intriguing book points out, when it comes to our sexual emotions. Neuroscience has so much to tell us about why and how we feel stimulated during sex that the molecules that create sexual emotions have already found their way into popular vocabulary. In the anticipation of pleasure, for instance, the neurotransmitter dopamine “bathes your brain”, while endorphins (“home-made opioids”) are the ones that give you “comforting, blissful sensations”. During sex, we are awash with the latter — so much so, as ­Giovanni Frazzetto, a molecular biologist, describes in this eye-opening study of neuroscience, that “when we reach an orgasm, the brain…