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Tuesday, January 03, 2006Women who use oral contraceptives could suffer a long-term loss of sex drive after coming off the pill, according to new research ...Panzer's research, published this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, was based on 124 pre-menopausal women attending a clinic for sexual dysfunctions. Half the women had used the pill, 39 had stopped using it and 23 had never taken it. Scientists measured their SHBG levels every three months for a year. A spokeswoman for the UK Family Planning Association urged caution in interpreting the findings. "It is difficult to quantify what a person's sex drive is," she said. Not only that, but if the women were drawn from a sexual dysfunction clinic, aren't they all suffering from decreased libido? Even those who weren't taking the pill? It's hard to believe that there's anything of clinical significance here, beyond the amount of sex-binding proteins circulating in pill users. Testosterone levels are only weakly associated with sex drive to begin with, which is why giving women testosterone creams isn't all that effective in improving libido. A stronger determinant of libido is overall well-being and the level of emotional interest ( or lack thereof). posted by Sydney on 1/03/2006 07:40:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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