{"id":3690,"date":"2012-04-13T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:04:08","slug":"do-people-turn-to-alcohol-because-they-cant-get-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/do-people-turn-to-alcohol-because-they-cant-get-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Do People Turn to Alcohol Because They Can\u2019t Get Sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040912_0448_DoPeopleTur1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Palmer reports that when male flies have their sexual advances spurned by female flies they are more likely to turn to alcohol. Highlights of the study include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flies were put into a box with either virgin females who were open to having sex or females that had already mated, and thus rejected the males.<\/li>\n<li>Those in the rejected box were more likely to drink a mixture that contained 15% alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists think that alcohol might give the flies the same high as sex thus satisfying their cravings.<\/li>\n<li>Humans share the same chemicals that are implicated in the production of this behaviour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about what happened when scientists directly altered the chemicals responsible in the flies&#8217; brains, what this says about human interaction, and why alcohol hijacks our evolutionary mechanisms click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17357560\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17357560\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/03\/23\/freak-est-links-47\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Palmer reports that when male flies have their sexual advances spurned by female flies they are more likely to turn to alcohol. Highlights of the study include: Flies were put into a box with either virgin females who were open to having sex or females that had already mated, and thus rejected the males. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040912_0448_DoPeopleTur1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7476,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/7476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}