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 womens 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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It’s not the darned plastic, it’s the time of night and the 120 pound gut!
Then again, if the scientists say it’s the plastic....pass the chips! I’ll eat them in bed before she comes out!
Brilliant!!!
It’s the new ‘headache’.
That’s why the Japanese make plastic women that like sex.
So maybe it’s their husbands’ hair loss making them lose interest?
Wow! This explains why my girlfriend and I hit it off so well. I think everything in her house is made of wood or metal!
Those chemicals used to keep certain products soft and pliable are also known as plastizisers and my be of different origins, but accomplish the same thing, like making a shower curtain soft and pliable instead of being hard and stiff like a board.
“Those chemicals used to keep certain products soft and pliable...”
One would think this would cause more problems for the guys than the gals.
Well, now...
Someone told me that a male hair loss means excessive testosterone levels. I guess it makes bolder men more desirable for their wives.
I thought wedding cake was the most fattening food.
I have a feeling this study was done by some other new container manufacturer. Remember the PABA free sunscreen? How about the PBA free plastic bottles? And my favorite chlorofluorocarbon free. All conveniently replaced by very profitable materials manufactured by the companies that funded the panic.
That's what I've heard too.
I guess it makes bolder men more desirable for their wives
Not sure about that, aesthetically speaking.
So good I still have my hair in place;)
Good info, very pleased for you :)
now it’s not only someone else’s fault, it could be something else’s fault.
honey, it’s your fault because you bought my healthy choice meals and they come in plastic microwave trays, and my yogurts in plastic containers, and my energy drinks in plastic bottles...
...but if you wouldn’ t have bought them i’d be pissed at you and you’d still have no sex....
Yes, I think that is supposed to be true.
So it may not pertain to wives. To those without wives looking for company, it may offer a cruel irony, however.
Like credit cards? That kind of plastic?
That's (a) gross.
No, women simply never have as much interest anyway. And losing testosterone makes it worse. It is men who do not like when women are not interested.
I agree all we obsess about is sex. It is everywhere, including increasingly overt commercials on TV, never mind the programs. It has basically become worthless by being overvalued.
Yes, and it makes sense. Hair loss is a secondary sex characteristic for men, so it would be logical that lots of test. means less hair.
Now if only it would mean they would lose body hair....
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