Crazy Little Thing Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad

by Langley, Liz

• ISBN13: 9781936740031
• ISBN10: 1936740036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-13
• Publisher: Viva Editions

Summary

Crazy Little Thing" is a look at why people want to be in love and the burbling, boiling soup of endorphins, hormones, and neurotransmitters that spill from the brain to make them do things that would otherwise be viewed as insane. Langley reveals the control that chemicals have in a hilarious, confounding--and too strange to be anything but true--look at love.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xvii
Chapter 1: Brainiac	p. 1
You Are Here: The Layout of the Brain	p. 1
She Focused Me with Science	p. 8
Helen and Me on the Ancient Imaginary Plains of Africa	p. 19
Chapter 2: Love, Birds, and the Lesbian Albatrosses	p. 27
Chapter 3: What You See in Them: Ideas on Attraction	p. 39
Is She Really Going Out with Him?	p. 39
Gibsonton	p. 52
The Melancholy Story of the Lobster Boy	p. 58
Chapter 4: "The Ballad of Burt and Linda"	p. 67
If You Break Up with New York, Can You Still Be Friends?	p. 67
Linda	p. 76
The Shaky Bridge	p. 93
Chapter 5: Bigfoot the Yenta	p. 99
Loving the Alien	p. 99
Wa-Wa-Wee	p. 103
Sensitive Sideways	p. 109
"They're embracing it in you when you can't see it."	p. 120
Chapter 6: Genetic Sexual Attraction	p. 123
It Sucks to Be Edgat Allan Poe	p. 123
The Last Taboo: "It wasn't a mother-son relationship, it was a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship"	p. 128
GSA in Art	p. 130
No Kids Allowed on the Moon	p. 138
Chapter 7: The Greatest Breakup Story Ever Told	p. 141
"I am enchanted, I am amazed"	p. 141
"My brain was dipped in hell"	p. 143
Seeking the Light	p. 151
Chapter 8: Nikki Reynolds	p. 157
Never a Borrower	p. 157
Learning to Forgive Yourself	p. 163
"Quiet little white girls"	p. 166
"It was an obsession"	p. 171
Two Views on the Teen Brain	p. 174
Chapter 9: Down for the Count: Love and Draculacon	p. 181
Some People Just Can't Take Death for an Answer	p. 181
It Had to Be Her	p. 186
"Do not let evil into your heart. It will make a home there"	p. 191
"It's not okay not to be loved"	p. 202
Chapter 10: Spiritual Love	p. 209
Divine Madness	p. 209
Not All Bliss Is Domestic	p. 214
Mark and Patricia	p. 220
Do You and God Have Any Chemistry?	p. 224
Nadine Begin: A Future Queen in a Princess Habit	p. 225
You Sexy Thing: Objectùm-Sexuality	p. 231
Epilogue	p. 237
About the Author	p. 242
Endnotes	p. 243
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