Sorta OT: Semen Eases Female Depression
merwench
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Study Says Semen May Ease Depression in Women
Dina Cappiello c.2002 Albany Times Union
Depressed? A study of 293 female students at the State University of New
York at Albany suggests that a dose of semen can make you feel better.
Yes, semen.
Women who anonymously participated in a research survey on campus two
years ago whose sexual partners regularly did not use condoms were less
depressed than those who used a condom during sex, according to the
study. The results, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in
March, suggest that the fluid containing sperm may actually enhance mood
when it is absorbed through the lining of the vagina.
Other sexual factors that could alter mood, such as birth-control pills,
the frequency of sex and whether the woman was in a long-term
relationship, were ruled out, said SUNY-Albany psychology professor
Gordon G. Gallup, the lead author of the study.
Gallup stressed that he is not promoting unsafe sex.
``Regardless of these findings, this study does not advocate that people
abstain from using condoms,'' said Gallup, a 61-year-old evolutionary
psychologist who has been at the university since 1975. ``Clearly, if
you develop a sexually transmitted disease or an unwanted pregnancy, any
psychological effects are not going to offset that.''
Gallup's team divided 293 women ranging in age from their late teens to
mid-30s into groups based on their sexual habits, then used a standard
questionnaire known as the Becker Depression Inventory to measure mood.
Women who had sex without using condoms had the lowest average score on
the mood test, indicating that they were less depressed. Moreover, the
mood of those women worsened as more time passed since they had
intercourse. The most depressed group of women in the study, which
included female students who were not having sex, were those who usually
used a condom.
``It's not a question of not having sex,'' Gallup said. ``It's a
question of whether there is semen in the reproductive tract.''
Other researchers have questioned Gallup's results, saying that
evolutionarily speaking, they don't make much sense.
Gallup counters that the mood-altering hormones in semen help develop
bonds between couples.
The effects of semen on depression were first suggested in a 1986 paper
in the journal Medical Hypotheses.
Gallup stumbled on it while researching a phenomenon known as menstrual
synchrony - women living in close quarters developing the same menstrual
cycle.
Gallup knew that the synchronization was triggered by body odor, but he
couldn't understand why cohabiting lesbians' menstrual cycles did not
synchronize and those of heterosexual women living in places like
dormitories did.
Gallup hypothesized that semen could alter the sense of smell, and he
began to research its effects.
He has followed up the initial study with a questionnaire distributed to
700 female students at SUNY-Albany.
While that research has yet to be published, he said he is seeing some
interesting results.
Women whose partners do not use condoms are more likely to end one
relationship and quickly enter another. Their premenstrual symptoms are
also less severe, Gallup said.
http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/yhd7/2002/07/02/medic/4019-0029-pat_nytim
es.html
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Thorney
> Another damn fine reason to have lots and lots of sex...
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> Study Says Semen May Ease Depression in Women
> Dina Cappiello c.2002 Albany Times Union
> ...Women who anonymously participated in a research survey on campus two
> years ago whose sexual partners regularly did not use condoms were less
> depressed than those who used a condom during sex, according to the
> study....<much detail snipped.
Not as surprising as one might think; much odder things have been found.
A study
some years back found that college women in new all-female dormitories had
much
more irregular periods than college women in all-female dormitories that had
earlier
been men's dormitories (and which therefore, men being men, had some smell
of
male urine here and there around the building.)
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pet wrote:
> merw...@earthlink.net (merwench) wrote in message news:<1ffz9n4.1cko2yu1syksx4N%merw...@earthlink.net>...
> > Another damn fine reason to have lots and lots of sex...
> > [snip]
> > Women who anonymously participated in a research survey on campus two
> > years ago whose sexual partners regularly did not use condoms were less
> > depressed than those who used a condom during sex, according to the
> > study.
>
> While I agree with merwench, it's a great reason to have lots and lots
> of sex, one alternative to the theory proposed did occur to me:
>
> Women whose sexual partners regularly do not use condoms are probably
> more likely to be in a trusting relationship, possibly long term,
> where a condom is not needed as protection from STDs, and I would
> think that situation would tend to make women less depressed.
>
> ~pet
I would also like to know whether taking semen orally affects the results. Who wants to help me with the
research?
Bruce Mills
From what I remember of the report, it didn't matter how the substance was
*ahem* "applied".
GeneK
"Bruce Mills" <aki...@sprint.ca> wrote...
> From what I remember of the report, it didn't matter how the substance was
> *ahem* "applied".
Maybe not to the women...
GeneK
merwench
> pet wrote:
>
> > merwench wrote:
> > > Another damn fine reason to have lots and lots of sex...
> > > [snip]
> > > Women who anonymously participated in a research survey on campus two
> > > years ago whose sexual partners regularly did not use condoms were less
> > > depressed than those who used a condom during sex, according to the
> > > study.
> >
> > While I agree with merwench, it's a great reason to have lots and lots
> > of sex, one alternative to the theory proposed did occur to me:
> >
> > Women whose sexual partners regularly do not use condoms are probably
> > more likely to be in a trusting relationship, possibly long term,
> > where a condom is not needed as protection from STDs, and I would
> > think that situation would tend to make women less depressed.
> >
> > ~pet
>
> I would also like to know whether taking semen orally affects the results.
> Who wants to help me with the research?
Snicker. One of the websites I read about this mentioned that the
researcher is going to look into whether the results hold for oral and
anal sex. I would imagine they would then have to also look into whether
they hold for male-male sex. I'm sure he'll be able to find lots of
participants.
For my part--the answer is a resounding yes. :)
merwench
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Norton Zenger
wrote:
>Another damn fine reason to have lots and lots of sex...
>
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>
>Study Says Semen May Ease Depression in Women
>
>Dina Cappiello c.2002 Albany Times Union
>
>Gallup's team divided 293 women ranging in age from their late teens to
>mid-30s into groups based on their sexual habits, then used a standard
>questionnaire known as the Becker Depression Inventory to measure mood.
Becker? It's the Beck Depression Inventory.
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> Another damn fine reason to have lots and lots of sex...
>
> ----------------------
>
> Study Says Semen May Ease Depression in Women
>
> Dina Cappiello c.2002 Albany Times Union
>
> Depressed? A study of 293 female students at the State University of New
> York at Albany suggests that a dose of semen can make you feel better.
>
> Yes, semen.
>
> Women who anonymously participated in a research survey on campus two
> years ago whose sexual partners regularly did not use condoms were less
> depressed than those who used a condom during sex, according to the
> study. The results, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in
> March, suggest that the fluid containing sperm may actually enhance mood
> when it is absorbed through the lining of the vagina.
>
> Other sexual factors that could alter mood, such as birth-control pills,
> the frequency of sex and whether the woman was in a long-term
> relationship, were ruled out, said SUNY-Albany psychology professor
> Gordon G. Gallup, the lead author of the study.
I haven't read the entire article, but from what's posted here,
it seems plausible (to me, of course) that the condoms might be
contributing to depression, not the other way around.
I'll expect the grant money any day, and the "lab assistants" the
week after.
Binder
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>
>While I agree with merwench, it's a great reason to have lots and lots
>of sex, one alternative to the theory proposed did occur to me:
>
>Women whose sexual partners regularly do not use condoms are probably
>more likely to be in a trusting relationship, possibly long term,
>where a condom is not needed as protection from STDs, and I would
>think that situation would tend to make women less depressed.
Or extremely gullible. Sorry, there's always a dark side.
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