AusTexan, that stuff about oxytocin is incredibly simplistic (read - wrong). Women can orgasm from solo sex - which whom do they then bond? Most people have had more than one partner and have not lost the ability to create intimacy. When you are presented with a theory - and theories are currently overflowing on all sorts of things with a flavor of pseudoscience, such as your oxytocin thingie, taking advantage of the situation in which, one the one hand, people are illiterate in life sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) because of poorly funded public schools, but on the other hand, people think highly of things that "sound" scientific, so as a result, if I go out trying to sell a woodoo medicine on the market I'd not have much success, but if I go out trying to sell a scientific-sounding theory (thus, pseudoscience is the operative word) to the masses, I would have success.
So you have been sold on pseudoscience. To be completely precise, it may be warped and incomplete science, but that still leaves the end product at the pseudoscience stage.
I just have one question. Do you have children? Did your wife nurse them? Because, you know, the MAJOR (!!!) applications of oxytocin is childbirth and lactation. So I wonder how she fared in that department, and if she fared well, what conclusions did you draw about the validity of your little theory, according to which your wife is unable to secrete oxytocin due to multiple trysts that happened in the last millennium?
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