Hormones in Semen Shown to Make Women Feel Good Wed Jun 26, 2:09 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Hormones in semen may help to ease female depression because women whose partners don't use condoms are less likely to feel down.

Scientists at the State University of New York suspect the mood-altering hormones are absorbed through the vagina and make women feel good but they stressed that their results are not an excuse for unprotected sex.

"I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms," Gordon Gallup, who led the study, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

"Clearly an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease would more than offset any advantageous psychological effects of semen," he added.

The researchers assessed the moods of 300 female students using a standard questionnaire. A score of more than 17 was considered moderately depressed.

Women whose partners never used condoms scored about eight on the test while those who never had sex without condoms scored 11.3. Women who weren't having sex at all scored about 13.5.

Depression in the students who sometimes or never used condoms was more severe the longer they went without sex.

The scientists said they looked at other factors, such as the use of oral contraceptives, frequency of sex and personality type, but found that none could account for the findings.

The magazine said the results are not a complete surprise because scientists know that semen contains several mood-altering hormones including testosterone.

"Some of these have been detected in a woman's blood within hours of exposure to semen," the magazine said.

The scientists suspect semen will have the same effect on women regardless of how they are exposed to it.

-- step right up ladies (get your free happy shots @ swallowing. is good for you), June 26, 2002

Answers

Just think of the money you can save on antidepressant medications!

-- (cum @ and. get it), June 26, 2002.

Men will say anything to get a blow-job *yawn*

-- (major@eye.roll), June 26, 2002.

LOL, we finally discover the truth about why women are willing to wrap their lips around that thing!

-- Dr. Feelgood (women love @ my. injections), June 27, 2002.

Geeze, leave it to men to twist it into women getting their "dose" through a blow job. It specifically states the mood altering hormones are absorbed through the vagina Chemicals absorbed through the mucus membrane of the vagina may not have the same effect when they are introduced into the stomach, where acids and other stomach chemicals are waiting to break them down to be absorbed into the system.

Besides, the chemicals that are produced when a woman is aroused and especially when she climaxes have a HUGE effect on her feelings of well being and mood. If she is denied a climax, especially after the hormones released during arousal, there appears to be a huge negative impact on her mood. A VERY NEGATIVE impact on her attitude towards the male who left her in that state of non-fullfillment. Hell, she's apt to verbalize her negative attitude about the lack of the chemical "high" she had been anticipating during the act, and not received.

-- Cherri (whatever@who.cares), June 27, 2002.

"Geeze, leave it to men to twist it into women getting their "dose" through a blow job. It specifically states the mood altering hormones are absorbed through the vagina"

Geeez, leave it to women to try to deny that they like giving hummers because it lifts their spirits.

The article also states...

"The scientists suspect semen will have the same effect on women regardless of how they are exposed to it."

It will affect them no matter how it gets into the bloodstream, and it will get into the bloodstream just as quickly through the mouth as through the snatch. Of course you will always want to deny that you like to polish our knobs because you think it is degrading, but you have to admit it makes you feel good afterwards no matter which way you choose to take your shots.

-- (cum on @ don't. deny it), June 27, 2002.

No wonder I'm always smiling. ; )

-- Pammy (pamela_sue57@hotmail.com), June 27, 2002.

At last! One happy camper at least.

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), June 27, 2002.

She smiles under the bed ...

-- helen (kids@are.proof.of.happiness), June 27, 2002.

If you are really concerned about how your woman feels, why don't you try picking up your socks, telling her she's beautiful, cook her dinner once in awhile, help get the kids into the bath....etc. Get the picture?

-- men are selfish (major@eye.roll), June 27, 2002.

Sure, I'd be glad to. You go out into the corporate pressure cooker and pull in a 6 figure salary and I'd love to stay hone and play Mr. Mom. I'd be a hell of a lot better at it that you, too. The only problem is you wouldn't last a week in the corporate jungle without having multiple emotional breakdowns, lol!

-- hee haaw (gimmee@break.bimbo), June 27, 2002.

Can Mr Mom whip out a tit in time?

-- (lorelei@jiffy.lube), June 27, 2002.

Sure, it only takes a minute to warm up a bottle. Unfortunately for women, there's no substitute for a good hard cock full of jizz, lol!

-- (you@need.cock), June 27, 2002.

heeehaww let me tell you something honey, work is work, no matter how much money one brings home. My money is on it that you couldn't do what I do; at least not longer than a week before you run home crying that people were so mean to you, whaaaaa. Stuff your six figures up your ass. We are not impressed.

-- Independent Woman (slap that@nasty.peepee), June 27, 2002.

If you are really concerned about how your woman feels, why don't you try picking up your socks, telling her she's beautiful, cook her dinner once in awhile, help get the kids into the bath....etc. Get the picture?

-- men are selfish (major@eye.roll), June 27, 2002.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

I did that honey. For 19 plus years. Guess what .........?

I now live in a one bedroom apartment by myself and I am happier that I have been in DECADES. What is YOUR point.

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), June 27, 2002.

"heeehaww let me tell you something honey, work is work, no matter how much money one brings home. My money is on it that you couldn't do what I do; at least not longer than a week before you run home crying that people were so mean to you, whaaaaa. Stuff your six figures up your ass. We are not impressed."

Bwaahahaahahaaaa!!! Like I said, you wouldn't last a week without having multiple emotional breakdowns, and you proved my point within an hour!!! You CRY because people are MEAN to you?? Heeee-haaaaaw!! In the real world where men work, no one is nice, and mean is normal. You're just another ignorant emotional cunt.

-- lol ("people aren't fair to me! @ waaaah. waaah waaaah!"), June 27, 2002.

JBT did she leave you because of your "affair"?

Men and their midlife crises make me ill.

-- (gag@gag.gag), June 28, 2002.

heehaw if you don't like your job, get another.

-- quitcher bitchin (major@eye.roll), June 28, 2002.

I love my job, I just don't like listening to dumb cunts complaining about picking up socks and cooking dinner, when they couldn't survive for a week on their own without people like me to provide for them.

-- lol (you started the bitchin @ cin. bitch), June 28, 2002.

Hee Haw makes $9,435.67 a year on the welfare dole, hence his 6 figure a year income.

-- dr. pibb (drpibb@new.formula), June 28, 2002.