I sort of feel like comedians after 9/11. When is it permissible to discuss anything not related to the recent earth-shaking event?
Well, for me that would be one day.
I was walking and listening to NPR on the antique Walkman this morning when I heard about a study that was recently done in Australia and which is being written up in the New England Journal of Medicine on 814 post-menopausal women which involved the use of a testosterone patch to see if it increased the women's libidos.
Guess what?
It did.
Women who received the testosterone patch reported having twice as many satisfying sexual encounters a month than before they were on it, while women on the placebo patch reported having 0.7 more satisfying sexual experiences than before.
AND...when I say "twice as many" what that means in this particular study was that they had TWO more satisfying sexual encounters a month. And the placebo patch women were having almost (don't you love statistics?) ONE more sexual satisfying sexual encounter a month.
Oh boy. Makes me want to run out and get me some patches.
And oh yeah, there was some unwanted hair growth and four of the women on the real patch developed breast cancer while none of the placebo group did, but hey! TWO MORE SATISFYING SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS A MONTH! TOTALLY WORTH IT!
Why don't they do a study which tries to determine if a dinner out and a foot rub doesn't get similar or better results?
No unwanted hair growth, no increased breast cancer, and I have a strong feeling the results would be at least as good as putting male hormones in female bodies.
Good grief!
