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Study: Sexual Desire is in Your Genes
LiveScience.com ^ | 5/29/06

Posted on 05/29/2006 11:53:37 AM PDT by anymouse

Your sexual desire or lack thereof could be in your genes, scientists announced today. The discovery might change how psychologists view sexuality.

The researchers found that individual differences in human sexual desire can be attributed to genetic variations. The study is the first to provide data to show that common variations in the sequence of DNA impact on sexual desire, arousal and function, the researchers said.

The scientists, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined the DNA of 148 healthy male and female university students and compared the results with questionnaires asking for the students' self-descriptions of their sexual desire, arousal and sexual function. They found a correlation between variants in a gene called the D4 receptor and the students' self-reports on sexuality.

The results suggest that low sexual desire might be a normal biological condition rather than a psychological problem, the researchers say. Further, it might be possible to develop drugs to alter sexual desire based on the new findings.

The research was led by Richard Ebstein and was published in the online version of the journal Molecular Psychiatry.


TOPICS: Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: biology; desire; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; psychology; science; sex; study
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Sexual Desire is in Your Jeans

Oey veh, they needed to do a study to find this out? :)

1 posted on 05/29/2006 11:53:40 AM PDT by anymouse
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Sexual Desire is in Your Jeans

And if you are not careful, Bill Clinton is in your jeans too.

2 posted on 05/29/2006 11:55:24 AM PDT by llevrok (The next greatest generation is now.)
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To: anymouse

Leave it to a Jewish researcher to determine that a lack of sexual interest comes from your mother. It's called guilt. :)


3 posted on 05/29/2006 11:56:10 AM PDT by anymouse
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Further, it might be possible to develop drugs to alter sexual desire based on the new findings.

A drug of that sort was "discovered",in San Francisco,in about 1967.

It's called cannibis sativa.

4 posted on 05/29/2006 11:58:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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Sexual Desire is in Your Jeans

Was gonna post a graphic, but everything was just too freakin' ghey.

5 posted on 05/29/2006 11:59:20 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: anymouse

Jeans? Oh. Genes. Sigh.

6 posted on 05/29/2006 12:00:59 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!!!)
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To: anymouse

So does this mean that we can state as a matter of scientific fact that homosexuals are genetic defects?


7 posted on 05/29/2006 12:01:22 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: anymouse

Of course sexual desires are genetic. When kids discover these desires, they need good two parent family role models to learn how to properly control and apply these desires.


8 posted on 05/29/2006 12:02:41 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (Mr Whipple says, please don't squeeze the koran)
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To: martin_fierro

I found one. :-)


9 posted on 05/29/2006 12:03:22 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!!!)
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To: martin_fierro
Take a gander before this gets pulled ... down ;)



10 posted on 05/29/2006 12:07:13 PM PDT by bwteim (BWTEIM = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: anymouse

My sexual desire is in HER jeans!


11 posted on 05/29/2006 12:08:21 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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They found a correlation between variants in a gene called the D4 receptor and the students' self-reports on sexuality.

So what they've actually discovered is the BS gene.

12 posted on 05/29/2006 12:09:32 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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First they say, "The results suggest that low sexual desire might be a normal biological condition rather than a psychological problem," then, "Further, it might be possible to develop drugs to alter sexual desire based on the new findings."

Anybody want to guess which direction they might want to go?


13 posted on 05/29/2006 12:17:17 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: bwteim

Sacral dimples.... Yum!!


14 posted on 05/29/2006 12:18:49 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!!!)
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Sexual desire is in your genes-ping
15 posted on 05/29/2006 12:41:41 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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16 posted on 05/29/2006 12:50:06 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: anymouse

nevertheless, it might explain a few things in my family history that go back about 150 years...ah the stories that branch of the family could tell...


17 posted on 05/29/2006 12:52:04 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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Sexual desire is in your genes. Talk amongst yourselves...
18 posted on 05/29/2006 1:10:08 PM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: bwteim

My genes told me to do things when I saw that pic...


19 posted on 05/29/2006 1:10:24 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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To: anymouse; Slings and Arrows

They also need to do studies into eating and breathing.. ;)


20 posted on 05/29/2006 1:12:14 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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