Apps like Grindr and Scruff have become the gold standard for men to meet men. These apps, and others like it, use geo-locational technology to connect users to other men currently logged onto the app within a certain physical range, creating easy opportunities to both meet and hook up with new guys.
But why are these apps seemingly reserved for gay men? What about a hookup app for lesbians or for straight people? Certainly, Tinder is the closest thing to a hookup app for non-gay men but it absolutely falls short of being a full-fledged hookup app.
So, where is the disconnect? In fact, much research shows that men and women, regardless of sexual orientation, choose to have casual sex just for the sake of it at roughly the same rate. But β and this is a very distinctive but β biological differences between men and women seem to be the cause of differences in hooking up habits.
Oxytocin is released in the brain during sex and plays a primary role in our ability to bond and attach to others, to develop romantic feelings and to establish feelings of trust.
While this chemical is produced by both men and women, it is only released in men during orgasm, while oxytocin is produced in females all throughout the sexual experience and at higher levels than men. In short, men are not emotionally attaching because of sex unless they are already connected to their sexual partner in other ways i.
