Scientists find love breeds lust
By Joe Nuffer | February 27, 2003Currently involved in a relationship filled with lots of love, romance and sexual desire?Well, don't be surprised if your partner has acted on lustful ambitions for another.New research being done at UCLA is finding surprising correlations between being in a relationship and lust for another person outside the relationship. Researcher Mari Sian Davies of UCLA recently presented unpublished findings by her team which includes Professors Gian Gonzaga and Marty Haselton as well as graduate student Julie Smurda at a symposium for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Now worried that your significant other possibly could be betraying you at this very moment?Relax.Davies' report indicates that those in love are actually less likely to act on their lustful desires.But don't get too relaxed just yet.The study's other result is that being in a relationship increases one's feelings of lust for another. The study involved 53 UCLA college students in romantic relationships.College students were apparently chosenbecause their relationships are more dynamic with a greater probability that they will fade.
