From: ((Steven B. Harris)) Subject: Re: Labido? Date: 25 Apr 1995 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative >Mike Davis (xdcrlab@quake.net) wrote: >: In article <frankfather-290395125137@frankfather.cs.bgsu.edu>, >: frankfather@cs.bgsu.edu (Cathy ) wrote: > >: > Is there actually anything that will help a menopausal woman with a low >: > libido to increase it?? Most post menopaual women will benefit from female hormone replacement (skin, sex organs, feeling of well being, even heart disease risk), so you should get that done. After that, assuming all psychological factors are in order, you may want to see an endocrinologist and get *testosterone* levels measured. These drop somewhat after menopause in many women, and have effects on some women's libido (libido in women is testosterone driven, in part, just as it is in men). The replacement testosterone dose is far less than what would be given to a man, but at the same time can be quite effective for certain women. An antidepressant called Wellbutrin has also been reported to increase libido in some women. Small doses of caffeine also. Of course, excersize and a good diet (and maybe even some reasonable vitamin supplements) are also cornerstones of all physical well-being, without which libido goes away. Steve Harris From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com (Steven B. Harris ) Subject: Re: Genital Mutilation, etc. Date: 13 Sep 1995 Newsgroups: misc.kids,talk.politics.medicine,soc.men,sci.med,alt.activism, alt.activism.children,soc.couples,alt.feminism,rec.org.mensa,soc.women In <juliew8DEtzM4.35u@netcom.com> juliew8@netcom.com (JULIANNE WEIGHT) writes: >Steven B. -- we're not sniggering -- we're ROTFL! How much time and >money has been spent over the ages on male aphrodisiacs and improving >male performance? Answer: quite a lot. But not as much as has been spent on female beauty and adornment. > I think this thing about circumcisions has been >started up by an environmentalist group wanting to divert attention away >from rhino horns. No, from dried tiger penises. Uncircumcised dried tiger penises. >The LENGTHS (excuse the pun) men will go to in search >of the perfect sexual experience and the opportunity (better yet) to >brag about it are astounding. Not as astounding as the time women spend bragging about their kids, and their husband's incomes! And if you think that women spend less time talking amongst themselves about the men they've slept with than men spend talking about the women they've slept with, think again. That's one of the great canards of the 20th century. The man who keeps the knowledge of his new lover entirely to himself is not that rare a bird, but the woman who does is as rare as hen's teeth. >I must say, that in two years of being the only female in a karate class >as well as the only female training in the weight-lifting room, I became >one of the guys. And *never once* was the status of a guy's foreskin >part of the discussion! This I believe. I find it almost as wierd as you. >Here's the joke I heard on the radio this a.m. Three engineers are >discussing the Creation and trying to decide what kind of engineer God >was. The first guy said "Had to be an electrical engineer. Look at the >brain and the nervous system and all the fine connections." The second >guy said, "Naw, He had to be a mechanical engineer. Look at all the >muscles and bones and articulations." The third guy says, "No, I know for >a fact He is a civil engineer because only a civil engineer would run a >waste disposal system through a recreation area." ROFL!! A good one I hadn't heard. Steve Harris, M.D. From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 24 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <32707890.3924116@snews.zippo.com> harouffd@top.net (Don Harouff) writes: >jet@cinenet.net (Jet Silverman) wrote: > >>AMassucci (amassucci@aol.com) wrote: >>: What other substances can be used to stimulate female libido? >> >>Men >Not really, men seem to have just the opposite effect. Usually due to >poor timing. >Don Not due to poor timing, rather due to poorness in general. The basic stimulants of female libido are money and power (almost the same thing), but these are hard to put in a capsule <g>. A. I want an herb to stimulate female libido. B. I've got one I'll sell you. A. How much? B. A million dollars. A. Listen, buddy, if I had a million dollars, I wouldn't *need* the damn herb... Cynically and Truthfully Yours, Steve From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 29 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <32761D99.2424@bankerstrust.com> Claude Dohrn <claude.dohrn@bankerstrust.com> writes: > >Dr. Harris, > >If you had couched your original post in Darwinian terms, you >might not have gotten the PC backlash. There were once good >reasons for women preferring powerful men; one could argue that >there are still good reasons. Some people, though, are >irritated or discomfited by the fact that humans are influenced >by drives which aren't PC. > >You know, on reading this prior to posting, I think that you >quite likely would have gotten just as much backlash to a >Darwinian framing of your (humorous) statement; it just would >have come from a different group. > >Regards, >Claude Maybe, but you'll notice that Darwin isn't PC either. PC is just shorthand for "left-leaning," and Marx thought Darwinism was just Capitalism applied to biology (and in this was largely correct, as Darwin had been reading Adam Smith, of all things, before coming up with his great idea). In general, leftists hate the idea that everything humans do is not determined by class-struggle, which is to say cultural programming. Afterall, what do leftists have to work with to change the world but cultural programming? It's not as though most of them were scientists and engineers. They're mostly gay men and women in university English departments (and various other PC departments created just for them to have jobs in). Stirring the Pot Steve From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 29 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <DzvBx6.E8o@blaze.trentu.ca> arogers@ivory.trentu.ca writes: >In article <54nb3b$83k@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, >sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) writes: >> >> Not due to poor timing, rather due to poorness in general. The basic >>stimulants of female libido are money and power (almost the same >>thing), but these are hard to put in a capsule <g>. >> >> A. I want an herb to stimulate female libido. >> B. I've got one I'll sell you. >> A. How much? >> B. A million dollars. >> A. Listen, buddy, if I had a million dollars, I wouldn't *need* the >> damn herb... >> >> Cynically and Truthfully Yours, >> >> Steve >Steve, >one word for you: > ASSHOLE It's amazing how many people have decided that I'm an asshole for suggesting that money and power stimulate the female libido (what, did you people all grow up on Mars or something?) How dare I suggest that women are, in their way, every bit as superficial and self-serving when it comes to sexual attraction as men are? Why, the very idea. Gee, I *must* be an asshole even to entertain this politically incorrect thought. Steve From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 29 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <3273846A.6E41@interactive.net> Tamara <srdi@interactive.net> writes: > >> > Not due to poor timing, rather due to poorness in general. The basic >> >stimulants of female libido are money and power (almost the same >> >thing), but these are hard to put in a capsule <g>. >> > >> > A. I want an herb to stimulate female libido. >> > B. I've got one I'll sell you. >> > A. How much? >> > B. A million dollars. >> > A. Listen, buddy, if I had a million dollars, I wouldn't *need* the >> > damn herb... >> > Cynically and Truthfully Yours, >> > Steve >> Steve, >> >> I guess that because _you_ are a woman, _you_ would know!? >> Maybe you should be posting to alt.sexism or alt.asshole. >> >> Apalled and truthfully yours, >> Kellie >> kbonnici@trentu.ca > >Steve, > >Ya had to know that was coming. Of course. I've come to realize that women have no better insight into why they behave as they do, than men do into their own behavior. But sometimes each can see something of the other. >I hope you're not married, and if you're not, we all know why. >-Tamara ROFL. I hope you're not recommending marriage as a way to study the female libido. A much better way to study this phenomenon to have a good look at groupies of all sorts. But that takes honesty, which is the first casualty in most conversations between the sexes. Steve From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 31 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <E02M0M.C7z@blaze.trentu.ca> kbonnici@ivory.trentu.ca writes: >In article <554hsk$hp4@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, >sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) writes: > >> It's amazing how many people have decided that I'm an asshole for >>suggesting that money and power stimulate the female libido (what, did >>you people all grow up on Mars or something?) How dare I suggest that >>women are, in their way, every bit as superficial and self-serving when >>it comes to sexual attraction as men are? Why, the very idea. Gee, I >>*must* be an asshole even to entertain this politically incorrect >>thought. >> >> Steve > >I don't know what kind of a world you live in/create for yourself, but >where I live, I choose to surround myself with people who aren't *so* >shallow. Are you watching too much Baywatch? > >Maybe I'm sheltered, maybe you are an asshole, > >Kellie >kbonnici@trentu.ca And maybe you are a vaccuousity of the magnitude of the inhabitants of Babewatch yourself. Or maybe not. Perhaps you don't discuss men with other women in terms that remind one of how ticks might discuss warm-blooded animals. Perhaps you have a tale of having picked up your husband while he was living with his parents, without a steady job and with no prospect of one, just because you were intrigued with his gentle nature, his sense of humor, and his thoughts about the last dozen books he'd read. Okay. Perhaps you picked up the tab on those dates also, just for the pleasure of his company? A woman of ideas, are you? Inquiring minds want to know. Steve From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) Subject: Re: Wife Has Low Libido Date: 31 Oct 1996 Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative In <E02MBM.CIn@blaze.trentu.ca> kbonnici@ivory.trentu.ca writes: >Honesty, yup. Maybe you should honestly analyze your motives for writing >such crap. Too bad you haven't experienced honest relationships. Maybe >you will one day... I've experienced several honest relationships-- probably more honest than any you'll ever know youself. All I'm saying is that such relationships between men and women are very rare. Anyone who holds differently is probably a fool. YOU are probably a fool. Cordially, Steve >Still appaled and disgusted with the attitude of some of the XY's > >Kellie >kbonnici@trentu.ca From: Steven B. Harris <sbharris@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: Viagra - improve sensitivity? Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:55:31 GMT In article <355DC5C6.3A0D@livingston.net>, jxwright <jwwright@livingston.net> wrote: >> If a protractor measured protraction, it wouldn't give such crumby >> scores. The angle of the dangle is not the be-all and end-all. > >getting back to reality. women age and at some point are not as >satisfying to the old male, because, i SUPPOSE, to the aging muscles in >the woman. or it could be the lowered sensitivity in the male. which is >it, doc? If you can believe Ben Franklin, older women make better partners, "every knack, by practice, being capable of improvement." And he gives a lot of other reasons, which sort of boil down to "They don't tell, they don't swell, and they're grateful as Hell." The texts say that if things are properly estrogenized and muscles are kept up with exercise (use it or lose it), women have an easier time of it with aging and sex than men do. Which is what you'd expect. Though men do surprizingly well if they keep their arteries clean (diet, cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, blood pressure, homocysteine control, etc, etc). Steve Harris, M.D. |