# Can "love" be chemically explained?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-love-be-chemically-explained/171294 "2003-04-26T09:54:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-love-be-chemically-explained/171294/21 "2003-04-27T21:22:06Z")

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So Eunuchs don’t form emotional attachments to anyone?

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**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-love-be-chemically-explained/171294/22 "2003-04-27T21:34:24Z")

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AAARGH!! Must…Resist…Calvin and Hobbes…Reference… Aw, hell, I’ll say it anyway.  
“Well…say the object of affection walks by… First your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogteher your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.” Sorry, I had to say it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-love-be-chemically-explained/171294/23 "2003-04-27T23:48:35Z")

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That’s what it is, y’know, medically speaking.

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**Author:** ![Davidbw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Davidbw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davidbw1)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-love-be-chemically-explained/171294/24 "2003-04-28T01:23:58Z")

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from what i understand, there’s a chemical PEA (phenylethylamine) that has been associated with love-stricken college students (though perhaps that just means that lust can be chemically explained)

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