When asked if they’ve been arranging dates on the apps they’ve been swiping at, all say not one date, but two or three: “You can’t be stuck in one lane …
There’s always something better.” “If you had a reservation somewhere and then a table at Per Se opened up, you’d want to go there,” Alex offers.“Guys view everything as a competition,” he elaborates with his deep, reassuring voice. ” With these dating apps, he says, “you’re always sort of prowling.
"Taking cocaine and having sex don't feel exactly the same, but they do involve the same [brain] regions as well as different regions of the brain," said Dr.
Timothy Fong, associate professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.
A survey by u Switch showed that nearly one in five of us will be getting our dating app game on during a festival, which is a staggering 2.5 million millennials swiping their way through the crowds.
But what is going to make a potential hook-up banish you into the abyss of the left swipe?
Internet horror stories passed around on forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers.
The pleasure we get from sex is largely due to the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that activates the reward center of the brain.
Dopamine is also one of the chemicals responsible for the high people get on certain drugs.
But scientists are starting to unravel the mystery.
Here's what we know so far about your brain on sex. That's why we want it, like it, and spend so much time hunting for mates.