women: once, twice, three times the talkers

“In The Female Mind”, a new book by psychiatrist Dr Luan Brizendine offers clinical evidence outlining some of the key differences between men and women, intellectually speaking.

One of the biggest gaps seems to be in the area of verbal communication.

Apparently, chatting produces an almost drug like euphoria for women:

the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high.

As we’ve all suspected, women tend to be far more attuned to their emotions as well

Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road

If it’s any, ahem, consolation, we men are far more proficent when it comes to thinking about sex (approx every 52 seconds, as opposed to a woman’s average of once a day).

Or, to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, “where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes”.

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