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Chemicals in plastic 'are making women less interested in sex'
Daily Mail (London) ^ | Oct. 20, 2014 | FIONA MACRAE

Posted on 10/20/2014 8:28:07 PM PDT by Pharmboy

Full headline: Chemicals in plastic 'are making women less interested in sex': Low libido linked to additives used to soften materials found in every home PVC flooring and plastic shower curtains could lower women's libido Women with high levels of phthalates more likely to say no to sex Additives are man-made chemicals thought to interfere with hormones Tiny particles enter our systems through eating and breathing

Chemicals found in PVC flooring, plastic shower curtains, processed food and other trappings of modern life may be sapping women’s interest in sex. A study has linked low libido with the additives used to soften plastics which are found in every home. Women with the highest levels of phthalates in their bodies were more than twice as likely to say ‘not tonight dear’ as those with the lowest amounts.

Phthalates are man-made chemicals thought to interfere with the natural hormones that are crucial to overall health. They are found in everything from PVC flooring and shower curtains to car dashboards – and may also be in our food. Tiny particles can enter our systems either through breathing or eating. Previous studies have linked them to diabetes and asthma. They have also been blamed for feminising the brains of baby boys and last year the World Health Organisation warned they have ‘serious implications for health’.

In the first study of its kind, Dr Emily Barrett, of the University of Rochester School of Medicine in the US, measured levels of phthalates in the urine of 360 pregnant women in their 20s and 30s. She also asked them how often they lost interest in sex in the months leading up to their pregnancy. Those with the most phthalates in their bodies were two and a half times as likely to say they had frequently lacked interest...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: chemicals; plastic; sex
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To: Pharmboy

Lots of implications with this.


21 posted on 10/20/2014 9:06:28 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: RegulatorCountry

Indeed. The hole thing makes sense.


22 posted on 10/20/2014 9:07:10 PM PDT by sagar
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To: KarlInOhio

That was rather good, do not want to think how long it would take me to come up with the like of it.


23 posted on 10/20/2014 9:07:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: sagar

If they are soft plastic, then most likely, yes.


24 posted on 10/20/2014 9:08:30 PM PDT by Bill93
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To: Pharmboy

Good thing I had my wife DNA tested and she came up immune.


25 posted on 10/20/2014 9:08:47 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Pharmboy
what's the big deal?....men don't want to have sex with women anymore....they've got their porn in mags and on their computers to keep them "occupied".....

this truly over sexualized world has done exactly the opposite thing...its made men have less testosterone and less sperm and less desire to marry and have children and its now made women less "into" it....

26 posted on 10/20/2014 9:09:58 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Pharmboy

And all this time, I was thinking it was me!


27 posted on 10/20/2014 9:10:17 PM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: Pharmboy
Damn those scientists!
28 posted on 10/20/2014 9:11:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Signalman

And once that gold wedding ring slides onto their fingers, it instantly short-circuits a large ‘pleasure’ nerve running, by a circuitous route, from their brains to their spasm chasms.

Plastics. Hmmmmm. I don’t know what I’d do without my saltpeter chewing gum.
I meant, my saltwater taffies.


29 posted on 10/20/2014 9:13:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What a creepy, fascist—and most of all—SMUG little puke.


30 posted on 10/20/2014 9:13:43 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: doorgunner69
That was rather good, do not want to think how long it would take me to come up with the like of it.

Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies and I've had Ripper warning Mandrake about many things including WiFi, high-fructose corn syrup, birth control pill residue, dihydrogen monoxide and the absence of pork in halal foods.

31 posted on 10/20/2014 9:14:48 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Salamander
Apparently, I’m immune to the stuff.

Might as well face it!

32 posted on 10/20/2014 9:16:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Signalman

Of course plastics are a bad idea. Think silk, satin, leather, soft cottons. ...


33 posted on 10/20/2014 9:17:12 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Salamander
Apparently, I’m immune to the stuff.

Me, too.

34 posted on 10/20/2014 9:20:21 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Of course plastics are a bad idea. Think silk, satin, leather, soft cottons. .”

My ex had these really sexy plastic panties,,,,, but they were really tough to get off!


35 posted on 10/20/2014 9:33:37 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: TigersEye

Well, yeah, but girls don’t really do anything for me.

:D


36 posted on 10/20/2014 9:38:08 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

;-)


37 posted on 10/20/2014 9:38:37 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I wear lace...and I wear...black leather.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaK2Cvh0IYA


38 posted on 10/20/2014 9:40:32 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: jonrick46

Homesteading in remote Alaska and eating from the wild.


39 posted on 10/20/2014 9:47:40 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Pharmboy

Hell the birth control has that effect. The small amounts in plastic is nothing compared to the unnatural doses of hormones.


40 posted on 10/20/2014 10:00:07 PM PDT by Maelstorm (If you wouldn't trust someone with your money why would you trust them with your culture?)
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