All You Need is Hugs

Naturally in researching inflammation in the brain I came to the important subject of hugging for biological health. There in fact seems to be a scarcity of neurological studies on hugging but the few that have been done did show that womens with physical support had lower cortisol and heart (but not higher oxytocin) It's old news---

I'm sure they haven't done much research on it because what do you do then? I mean you can't have hug therapy, what therapists hug people? That sounds terrible. And you can't have random people hugging each other because that's just weird.

And extra hugging in relationships is tied to better health HOWEVER it doesn't make the relationship better.

Interestingly, elevated plasma oxytocin seems to signal distress in a relationship and not the other way around, (what happened to oxytocin being the chemical of love and bonding?) and the same went for elevation of vassopressin in men.

 And I wonder if higher need for intimacy actually strains relationships because people whose system is off and need more hugs are more needy and well, always wanting hugs. So therefore--- one partner is like, dude what the fuck, I don't want to hug you all fucking night every night geez! So does having higher oxytocin, vasoppressin signal that perhaps the man/woman is more geared toward intimacy which puts pressure on the partner? Does the level of physical contact/emotional intimacy cause the changes in the chemicals, or do the differences in chemicals precede the difficulties in the relationship?

So who wants to be held more, men or women? In looking for research I'm clearly not using the right key words because I'm turning up nothing on this phenomenon and I can't believe that no one has done research on how much hugging men and women want respectively. I did however find this particularly interesting piece by Dr. Needles Medical Blogs. There's no research, (poo), but it describes my own personal experience with desire for hugs quite well. What do women want? What do I want? Shit if I know. But I'd be willing to bet that in general, women want a lot more holding that men do. (I'll be keeping my eyes out for any studies. If you know of any, link up!)

Fear not for if this theory is correct, I have concocted a solution. It's brilliant so hold on to your britches:

All the womenz become lesbians and hug each other all day long!

Fucking brilliant. I am so glad I am here to solve all the worlds problems, what would we do with out such ingenuous and innovative solutions?!!!!!!!!! If the menz are feeling left out they can show up for the occasional threesome and sperm donation for the propogation of the species.

Ah. All in a days work.