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Shopping And Sex: Pretty Much The Same
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Jen Carlson
Published Sep 17, 2010
Modified Sep 17, 2010
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This is just kind of sad. According to the NY Post, scientists have discovered that shoppers stumbling upon a sale experience the same rush of endorphins that people experience when they're sexually aroused. (Now try to walk through Herald Square without hearing thousands of silent orgasms.) Anyway, the researchers hooked their subjects up to eye-tracking devices that showed them pornographic pictures, and then clippings from sale promotions, and the levels of excitement were the same! At least one New Yorker wasn't surprised, she told the paper that bargain shopping is "just like sex. Sales feel great for a moment, then you wake up the next morning, see the bill, say, 'What the hell did I just do?'" Men, you are one chocolate sale away from being replaced.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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