I have the perfect answer to the question Team Jacob freaks are dying to ask:
Q: Why didn't Bella fall for Jacob instead of Edward?
A: The author, Stephanie Meyer, didn't write that into the books.
Now that REALITY is out of the way, I will share with you, Dearest Addict, the real reason behind Bella's lack of obsession over Jacob....
Deep within the study of human biology we discover oxytocin, a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates contraction of the uterus and milk production in pregnant and nursing women. It also is released during orgasm in BOTH sexes. Studies show that it is also released by ANYONE who holds a baby. It has been dubbed the "human bonding hormone, " and is largely responsible for the mother/child bonding right after labor and during breastfeeding, AND THE BONDING THAT OCCURS BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A MAN (OR WEREWOLF, OR VAMPIRE) DURING AND AFTER ORGASM.
Bella's obsession with Edward is nothing more than puppy love, as far as I can tell. She's not old enough, experienced enough, or self-aware enough to KNOW what true love is. Jacob's obsession with Bella is the same kind of "love:" in short, immature. But Jacob would so capture Bella's heart, or at least her devotion, easily and completely, if he would just bang her.
Why? Because women release more oxytocin during an orgasm than men release, which is one reason why more men than women can handle wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am sex and not bond to their partner as strongly as women do. Come on, all women reading this who have "known" men know this to be true. And what's worse is that the longer you've "known" someone, the more difficult it becomes, physically, to break the oxytocin addiction.
I don't think Ms. Meyer knew much about oxytocin when she wrote New Moon. Or maybe she knew but didn't care.
Anyway, scientifically, all Jacob needs to do to win Bella is to get into her pants, and then she'd bond to him more than sparkley Edward. And it would be an actual chemical bond to him, very much an addiction. Jacob would be her drug. And then Bella would be a Jacob junkie and then I could enable her addiction by my co-dependent nature!
Science rules.
Now it makes me wonder why a couple of my female relatives are so taken by Edward...maybe they "know" something I don't....Or maybe the theatres put Pitocin (brand name of synthetic oxytocin used to stimulate contractions) in their sodas or sprinkle it on the popcorn, so all movie-goers bond to Edward. Either way, they're total junkies.
That's OK. I'm here to enable, er, I mean, "help."
So leave work early and go see New Moon again. I'll cover for ya.
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Here’s why she loves him, forget the fact that he is sparkley perfection to look at: He has infinite time to spend paying attention to her, and finds her incredibly fascinating. Also, girls love a bad boy, and Edward is nothing if not dangerous. He’s got loads of inner turmoil and self-loathing, which a girl likes to think she can cure. And speaking of getting into pants, there’s not just good old-fashioned garden variety sexual tension going on. Oh no. There’s I-might-accidentally-kill-you-if-you-get-me-too-excited sexual tension. How can a girl NOT fall in love?
ReplyDeleteAlso, you should read the books.