"Fixing" lack of desire in females - Life is strange... — LiveJournal
Apr. 19th, 2007
08:35 am - "Fixing" lack of desire in females
Hi!
This article, from last week's SF Chronicle, is about yet another potential aphrodisiac for women. The scientists working on it tested it in rats, and I especially liked this bit of writing from the story:
[it also] fomented sexual excitement in female rats, prompting them to wiggle their ears, hop excitedly, rub noses with males and otherwise display unmistakable hallmarks of rodent arousal.
Whether it works or not, we will still have that little gem to remember.
I wonder if there are good reasons that many women are not particularly sexually interested, much of the time? Could it be pheremonal overload? Population density? Prolonged sleep-deprivation? OTC drugs? Birth-control pills? Too much food availability? Simple aging? Constant worry and stress? "Beauty" products? Sedentary lives? Less-interesting potential (and actual) partners?
Maybe it's a flaw in experimental design. Or maybe it's always been there, and recent experiments are just finding it now because people have simultaneously lost enough of their prudery and gained enough anonymity that they are willing to construct, present and answer such research more honestly now than in previous years.
Ideas?
Cheers! 
generalist
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I think the anonymity aspect of recent studies helps a great deal. I recently posted an article from the NY Times that I found fascinating because it was the first completely honest study regarding the differences between men and women and their sexual responses to given stimuli. It found that women were a lot less prone to lack of response than previously thought.... Which makes me think that a perceived lack of interest in sex could have more to do with the lack of interesting and creative partners.
Personally, I'm looking for an inhibitor drug these days. Until I find someone with greater potential, that is.
Ummm, yeah. Gotta love those unmistakable hallmarks.
Yeah, really.
interest in interest
I suppose I am broken in a good way, but stil.
Re: interest in interest
Hormones are just messengers. It's weird to see them discussed as if they are the cause of each and every gender-identified behavior.
there's a standard, silly!
Snarkily? I'd have to think that coming home to a clean house with dinner cooked, the laundry and dishes done, and the kids tucked in bed, and routine gestures of appreciation would do wonders for many women.
There's nothing like feeling as though no task that you do is ever complete or appreciated, whether it's at work or at home - and that time for yourself is "stealing" from any number of other tasks that have to be done - to result in a stew of ill feeling and stress that's not at all conducive to arousal.
I guess you could count that as a check in the "Prolonged sleep-deprivation" and "Constant worry and stress" boxes.
dampened responses?
Considering that women's bodies are at any given moment a cocktail of ever-changing hormones, might such an ongoing, unnatural infusion of chemicals dampen or their normal responses?
Re: dampened responses?
Hi!
I don't know about the medicines being stronger other places than here. Medicines are measured in mg doses, and from what little I noticed in Mexico, the dosages available there were similar to those available here. Of course, here you need a prescription for much of what one gets there without one.
Cheers!
generalist