addicted to love

"But to respect the central paradox of the female condition — the sexual/emotional need of the Vagina and cervix — might mean that we need to face the fact that women are, in a sense, more easily addicted to love and to good sex with the person who triggers that heady chemical bath, than men are. The work of Dr. Daniel G. Amen, in 'The Brain in Love', along with that of many other neurobiologists whose work has not yet been "translated" into mainstream culture, suggests that some of women's behaviors currently seen as needy or masochistic are in fact better understood as natural and probably evolutionary responses to the brain changes caused by female orgasm. Good sex is, in other words, 'actually' addictive for women biochemically in certain ways that are different from the experience of men — meaning that one experiences discomfort when this stimulus is removed and a craving to secure it again. Bad sex with a selfish or distracted partner — is 'actually' chemically dispiriting and damaging psychologically to women in a way that is different from men's experience."
Naomi Wolf, in Vagina