Hooked: The Brain Science on How Casual Sex Affects Human Development

How sex is rewiring your brain--for good and for bad

What does a three-pound brain have to do with one's sex life? A lot, actually.

Hooked is about what's happening to your brain when you're having sex. With scientific data put in layman's terms, this book demonstrates that:

• Sexual activity releases chemicals in the brain, creating emotional bonds between partners. This is great news for marriages
• Once formed, however, breaking these bonds can have damaging effects on the brain such as depression and difficulty bonding with someone else in the future.
• The continual forming and breaking of these bonds can have permanent effects on a person's brain.

PLUS This updated edition also includes a brand new chapter about the effects of pornography on the brain.

All this data about bonding, sex, and pornography has important implications in a casual sex culture. Regardless of what we wish were true, the facts tell us "safe sex" isn't as safe as it seems. Learn about your brain, the positive effects of sex within permanently committed relationships, and how you can protect yourself (especially your brain) from the dangers of casual sex.

Author: Joe S. McIlhaney Jr, Freda McKissic Bush
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 01/01/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780802418357
ISBN10: 080241835X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Social Issues
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Adolescence

About the Author
JOE S. MCILHANEY JR., M.D., is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist. In 2001, Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He also serves on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. McIlhaney has co-authored over six books including Hooked: The Brain Science on How Casual Sex Affects Human Development, and 1001 Health-Care Questions Women Ask. Dr. McIlhaney resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Marion.

FREDA MCKISSIC BUSH, M.D., is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and a partner in private practice with East Lakeland OB-GYN Associates in Jackson, Mississippi. She currently serves as Medical Director of the Center for Pregnancy Choices Metro Jackson and the Henry M. Johnson Women's Resource Crisis Pregnancy Center. Freda spends much of her time speaking on sexuality and social behavior education. Her passion is to help women raise a standard to become who they were created to be. To that end, she teaches and encourages a lifestyle of abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage. She co-authored her first book, Hooked, with Dr. Joe S. McIlhaney, in 2008.