Hormones in Semen Shown to Make Women Feel Good

Reuters (London) ^ | Wed Jun 26, 2:09 PM ET

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LONDON (Reuters) - Hormones in semen may help to ease female depression because women whose partners don't use condoms are less likely to feel down.

Scientists at the State University of New York suspect the mood-altering hormones are absorbed through the vagina and make women feel good but they stressed that their results are not an excuse for unprotected sex.

"I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms," Gordon Gallup, who led the study, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

"Clearly an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease would more than offset any advantageous psychological effects of semen," he added.

The researchers assessed the moods of 300 female students using a standard questionnaire. A score of more than 17 was considered moderately depressed.

Women whose partners never used condoms scored about eight on the test while those who never had sex without condoms scored 11.3. Women who weren't having sex at all scored about 13.5.

Depression in the students who sometimes or never used condoms was more severe the longer they went without sex.

The scientists said they looked at other factors, such as the use of oral contraceptives, frequency of sex and personality type, but found that none could account for the findings.

The magazine said the results are not a complete surprise because scientists know that semen contains several mood-altering hormones including testosterone.

"Some of these have been detected in a woman's blood within hours of exposure to semen," the magazine said.

The scientists suspect semen will have the same effect on women regardless of how they are exposed to it.

[Bama_Fren]

What would that be Inge_CAV ?

[Inge_CAV]

A clinton Arkansas toothpick.....

[Texaggie79]

ping

[mad puppy]

Surely someone will post that exceptional ugly picture of Hilda-beast as proof of what happens when you don't...ah...get exposed(?).

[Sir Gawain]

hehe

[Texaggie79]

Women who weren't having sex at all scored about 13.5.

Um, I would think they didn't score any........

[uglybiker]

Hormones in Semen Shown to Make Women Feel Good

So that's why the whore moans. And I thought it was the money! ;^)

[Tennessee_Bob]

I don't think I want to touch this one...

[Texaggie79]

Hey, if they kicked you, they would have to kick us all.......

[Delbert]

Thats what Monica said at first, but Clinton talked her into it!

[the_doc]

This looks epidemiologically hopeless as a study. Try as they might, there is no way to rule out other factors based on the way they did the study. The least depressed women may have been in the most stable relationships, in which condoms might have been even undesirable for one reason or another. This could easily account for the lower depression scores.

What the investigators would need to do is a long-term study in which they switched the non-condom-users to make them condom users. If the depression scores worsened for these women, it would be potentially significant in suggesting the hormonal effect. If the results didn't change soon, then the original conclusion was wrong.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, Delbert got my comment before I could.

I don't think the FR women will swallow this one...

[Delbert]

I forwarded the article to my wife and asked her what kind of mood she was in...she said depressed. : (

[taxcontrol]

Now we will hear Clinton claim that he was treating Monica for depression. :-)

[luckodeirish]

With all the bad news I think I had better double my intake.

[Delbert]

Ahhh did not have have depression counseling with that woman.

[Bama_Fren]

That says your not taking care of the wife. hmmmm

[christine]

lol! ;)

[Delbert]

Hmmmmmmmmm....Perhaps because we have been arguing a bit lately. Time for some depression counseling?

[christine]

don't you think you should link "eileen" to this thread? ;)