<p dir="ltr">It's not endorphins, it's dopamine. Trust me on this one. I could tell you more about someone who isn't me (Google that phrase) but as long as these are archived it'd have to be off list. I'll shoot spike an email.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2016 6:48 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I agree with Kelly, and also, although it’s not true of all addictions, it’s true of a common addictions, alcohol, and possibly others — it increases the chances someone will have sex. (In the early stages, at least.) In that sense, it’s pretty easy to see how imbibition would spread. At the same time, I believe that genetic resistance alcohol poisoning and/or (?) addiction spread at the same time that alcohol use did, perhaps in an arms race between the short term and long term benefits of drunkenness…?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"If desire did not dim intelligence, no one would get fat, drunk, or married."</div><div><br></div><div>bill w</div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></div>
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