Posted on 06/26/2002 1:44:41 PM PDT by 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.
Is that what happens when you kill a semicolon?
You know, you're probably right. Me alone. So I might as well "lighten up, Francis," stop swimming against the tide and join right in and get with the program. I'm not quite ready to be queer, so I hope I'm not yet "alone" in my heterosexuality. But since being the only one is such a prob, and I'm the only one constrained by an archaic, Puritanical, Victorian, obsolete morality, I'll just give in and play the game. So let's take this thread right on in the gutter, shall we? I used to write jokes for a living. So hell, why not? I'll pitch a few:
To start things off, here's a list of related threads.In case you didn't know or don't get it, writing dirty jokes is no challenge. It's easy. It takes no skill, no intelligence or wit, and they never fail to bring a coarse, cheap, leering, lecherous laugh.Hey, if semen hormones improve mood, the Oval Office sink must be euphoric! Badabing!
And that explains it. No wonder Monica's parents always said, after she kissed them hello, that they felt happy to see her. Badaboom!
A pharmacist walks into the drugstore one morning to find his partner behind the counter jacking off into some orange bottles. "What are you doing!?" he cried. "Just filling a couple of antidepressant prescriptions," he replied. Badabang!
A woman walks into a grocery store with gobs of white goo dripping from her face. A distressed clerk rushed over to her and asked, "Ma'am, can I get you something to wipe off your face with?" "No thanks," she replied, "My doctor is treating me for PMS." Badaboof!
Now we know why they call homosexuals "gay." Their happy assholes. Badayuck!
I'm very proud of FR right now, and even prouder every time this gets bumped into the "latest posts" list. < /sarcasm >
ROTFLMAO.
I just hope I don't get aressted for practicing medicine without a license.
Itt NoT A theeeory,,,,, iT a FAKT!!!! BWWAAHAAAHHHHAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAA.....ouch
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