The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Oxytocin has come to such prominence in the last decade or so, and seems to be everywhere. Anytime you hear a discussion about neuroscience in the brain or hormones in the brain, oxytocin is released in response to lactation in females, it is released in response to sexual interactions. It is released in response to non-sexual touch. It's released in males and females, and indeed it's involved in pair bonding and the establishment of social bonds in general.
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Oxytocin has a variety of roles in the brain and body. It's involved in milk letdown during lactation. It's involved in pair bonding, both in males and females. It's involved in bonding of parent to child, and indeed, between romantic partners, et cetera, et cetera.
oxytocin is released in response to lactation in females it is released in response to sexual interactions it is released in response to nonsexual touch it's released in males and females and indeed it's involved in pair bonding and the establishment of social bonds in general