* Hugging, cuddling, nuzzling is encouraged
* Tell the love recipient you love them.
* No sex (It's not about that), just lovin!
* Kissing on the lips is a grey area (consider kissing neck, head, shoulder and face).
There may be a good reason for this, but the negative effect is that expressions of love don�t always exist for all humans. Things have to go just right in order for someone to be able to be privy to all the benefits of love. The Love Ho�s aim to change that. What benefits? Science says that Love produces a chemical change in our brain. As humans, we grow happier and stronger because of love and loving. There is much more on this detailed on the relevant quote section of this email.
Just as there are connections that must exist between people who love each other in normal society, there is a connection that must also exist with BRC residents. But for the sake of this experiment, the connection will be assumed merely by the presence of the participant. The Love Ho thinks: you exist, you deserve to be loved.
So within our name, the term �Love� is explained, but why the use of the term �Ho�. There are a number of reasons for this. We don�t want to take ourselves too seriously. A �Ho� also implies an exchange and this is a query regarding the commercialization of all things, including the intangible. Can you commodify love? Stay tuned, we�ll give you the report. But there is another reason for the use of the term �Ho�. The implication is of an analogous dynamic as that of a prostitute and her clientele. An exchange � a gift � to the Ho? For The Love Ho, this is welcomed but not entirely necessary. The important part of the analogy is the responsibilities each participant takes on. The person is being loved upon has different duties than the Ho. The Ho must love. The person being loved must do nothing else except to be loved.
Relevant Love Quotes:
There is actual, measurable evidence concerning the physical effect of love upon the heart and thereby our general well-being.
From �Love - the Goal of Living. The Causes and Effects of our Fear of Love, and How to Overcome it.� http://people.smartchat.net.au/~rtaeni/lovebook.html
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We see this wonderful effect of love whenever a baby is brought into a room full of strangers, or when a baby is present when strangers meet on the street. Everyone around the baby begins to smile. Barriers of race and status can be broken down in an instant. This is a wonderful example of the power of love.
Computer Times May 2001 Get The MOST From Yourself, by Terrance Kibiloski, copyright 1996 http://www.computertimes.com/may01getmost.htm
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The following is from Radio National The Health Report with Rae Fry Biology of Love Monday 6 September 1999 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s49793.htm
Rae Fry: Are there any cultures that don't have a word for love?
Helen Fisher: There's all kinds of cultures that have actually better words than we have.
Rae Fry: More than one word perhaps?
Helen Fisher: Yes. You know, I basically divide love into more than one variety. I think that there's three different systems in the brain: one is the system for lust, associated primarily with testosterone in men and women. I mean if you inject a middle aged woman with testosterone, her sex drive goes up. The second brain system I think is romantic love, obsessive love, infatuation, associated in the brain I think, or I hypothesise, with high levels of dopamine and norpenephrin, these natural stimulants, and probably low levels of seratonin, which gives you that obsessive thinking. And the third chemical system in the brain I think is attachment, that sense of calm and peace and security that people have with a long-term partner. And other sciences have begun to think that that feeling of attachment is associated with vasopressin and oxytocin which are different chemicals in the brain.
So we basically have sort of different brain systems that operate to have us do different things, but they are related.
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The first effect of love is to inspire a profound respect; we have veneration for what we love. It is very just; we see nothing in the world so great as this.
Blaise Pascal (1623�1662). Minor Works. The Harvard Classics. 1909�14. Discourse on the Passion of Love http://www.bartleby.com/48/3/8.html