Oxytocin administration to males may have peripheral effects beyond avoiding milk letdown and uterine contractions.

“there have been some studies administering oxytocin to individuals with autism and again these are these single dose studies so the first studies that were were done were looking at single dose oxytocin in males because some of the and we can talk a little bit about why oxytocin versus vasopressin which vasopressin actually would have been my choice um based on the animal literature and we can talk about that but vas oxytocin was given to males um partly because it wouldn't the idea would be that the of Target effects in the peripheral nervous system I.E milk let down uterine contraction are not going to happen in males”