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I thought this first article was very interesting for any woman who is on birth control pills, or whoever took them in the past. Dr. Rehert
Monday, 20 January, 2003, 15:55 GMT
Pill changes women's taste in men
Monday, 20 January, 2003, 15:55 GMT
Pill changes women's taste in men
Taking the contraceptive pill appears to change women's taste in men. Psychologists have found that women who are taking the pill tend to fancy macho types with strong jaw lines and prominent cheekbones. However, women who are not taking that form of contraception seem to be more likely to go for more sensitive types without traditionally masculine features. Strong features such as a prominent jaw line and brow are thought to be linked to macho personality traits because they indicate high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone. Testosterone helps to build up these particular bones during puberty.
Where a woman chooses her partner while she is on the pill, and then comes off it to have a child, she may find she is married to the wrong man. The researchers believe it may even be possible that taking the pill encourages women to have relationships with inappropriate men.
They presented women with images of different types of men, and asked them to pick out potential long-term partners. They found those taking the pill were more likely to choose macho men, and to rate men with more feminine, softer physical features as a turn off. However, the researchers say it is these men who tend to be more sensitive, and more likely to making trustworthy and faithful husbands.
Next is a story, so far-out I hesitate to believe it ... but "I did find it on the Internet." Let me know if you think it's for real.
Giant pandas to get Viagra
by Cindy Sui
Male giant pandas in a southwest China sanctuary are being fed Viagra in an attempt to get the notoriously sex-shy animals in the mood for mating, scientists said on Monday. However initial tests proved unsuccessful on 16-year-old male panda Zhuang Zhuang - despite a name which translates as "Strong Strong," they said.
Zhuang Zhuang last year became the first panda given the sex-assisting drug in an attempt by researchers to boost reproductivity at China's largest panda sanctuary. "No result on him at all," said Wang Pengyan, deputy director of the reserve, where scientists try to breed pandas by encouraging them to mate, and if that fails, by artificial insemination.
Getting pandas in a loving mood has become something of an obsession to Wang and his colleagues in their decades-long effort to save one of the worlds most endangered species from extinction. Male pandas low sexual desires often mean they fail to respond to females in heat, a rare enough opportunity in itself as females are in heat only for about three days a year.
Researchers already routinely show the animals what has been dubbed "panda porn" - videos of pandas mating - and administer Chinese aphrodisiacs herbs as well as estrogen to female pandas. But pandas are so reluctant to mate in captivity that these schemes have had little success, prompting the Viagra plan, an idea that had been considered before but rejected.
Zhuang Zhuang was given around 1.5 times the normal human dosage of the drug, used in humans to cure male erectile dysfunction, reserve staff said. Wang said that Zhuang Zhuang had been an experiment, and that there were no immediate plans to make the drug a general policy due to worries about potential side effects.
"There's been a lot of research on the effects of Viagra on humans, but for pandas its a big question mark," Wang said. But other experts said Viagra might be worth a further try, placing the blame for the initial failure mainly on Zhuang Zhuang, who is middle-aged in panda terms.
"You can't say Viagra has no results on pandas. We used the wrong panda. That panda basically has no capability," said Guo Feng, a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences studying panda behavior in Wolong. "In the last few years, we've given Zhuang Zhuang many chances but he simply can't do it."
In contrast the "panda porn" appears to be having some effect, according to Wang, saying pandas became more aroused after watching the X-rated scenes, played for them several hours a day during the spring mating season.
Next year, the reserve hopes to begin releasing pandas born in captivity into the wild, where there is far more chance they will mate.
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