When I heard Michel Odent speak last year, one of the points he made was
that oxytocin receptors develop in response to oxytocin production. He said
that loving touch and sexual arousal throughout a woman's lifetime will
increase oxytocin production, and therefore the numbers of oxytocin
receptors. This would make sense in terms of the possible link with abuse -
these women have probably not received the lifetime of positive touching
that would give normal oxytocin production, and the negative kind of
touching they received would likely inhibit it.

Teresa Pitman
Guelph, Ontario

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