Sex hormone ‘controls fear and desire’ [BBC]:

“The sex hormone oestrogen plays a crucial role in a wide variety of human emotional responses, say experts.

It not only has a part in generating feelings of sexual desire, claim scientists, but is also at the root of other types of arousal – producing alertness or even fear.”

Those familiar with Crenshaw’s “Achemy of Love and Lust” and Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion” will know this stuff already but I am pleased to see this information reaching wider audiences.