I think it needs to be said, for straight men who grew up with one or more primary women in their lives being abusive and, thus, have that unflattering idea of women, the hormones’ flow does not obliterate that idea. The hormones wash over that ‘picture’ and hide it for a while, yes, but the thing is still there. And as the hormone flow drops it will still be there. One hopes that such men might have more positive experiences during the ‘heavy flow times’ (LOL) to alleviate the effect of the first ‘learning’ but, to state a VERY unpalatable fact, that primary experience does not go away. I say this from firsthand experience. I remember in my twenties feeling like I had to marry soon if I wanted to have a family (which I did want but have never had; aside from wife and pets) or there’d come a time when I wouldn’t want to. In retrospect, I think the ‘primary picture’ was making itself felt under the hormone flow. If anyone cares, I’m happily married now and have been for eight years. I was married before then for 11 1/2 years; she passed away almost ten years ago. Thanks be to God or Whomever — and to some positive experiences in my twenties and thirties which ‘cobbled’ themselves to earlier, but brief, encounters with more nurturing women. But the main point is, for men no more than for women, the hormones’ flow only hides the imprint of an abusive opposite-sex parent. It doesn’t obliterate it.