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[spacey]

Everywhere I see people are looking for supplements to increase their sex lust but now for me I am looking for something that does the opposite without having too harsh side-effects.

Any recommendations on this?

[Brian]

Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day?

[Shepard]

This was discussed once before, if it's any help:

http://www.imminst.o...61&hl=libido&s=

[Karomesis]

Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day?

[:o] great god man, he asked for a reduction, not a permanent loss. [lol]

[zoolander]

here's an interesting article published in WIRED NEWS

Want Love Forever? Take It Slow (If You're a Rat)
Topic: science

Should a female let a male take her around the bases on a first date? Maybe not -- at least if you're a lady rodent.

In a complicated experiment, scientists found that female rats who were forced to play hard to get were more likely to keep their male mates interested. But why?

    Driving this behavioral dynamic is, as always with rat sex, some neurochemical reward. Boston University biologist Mary Erskine notes that "sexual preferences come from chemical rewards, and we can be sure there are some here." Sexual climax, in fact, unleashes a flood of pleasure-producing hormones and neurotransmitters, such as testosterone and dopamine. [Another researcher] speculates that the higher level of arousal created by the longer wait generates a stronger release, and a more substantial reward, thereby enforcing the preference.

Readers, what do you think? Might humans work the same way?  Or does it matter when a woman gives it up?

Good Sex Is Not a Rat Race

[Karomesis]

Readers, what do you think? Might humans work the same way?  Or does it matter when a woman gives it up?

yes and no. human mating strategies are based on environmental cues as well as genetic factors.

here's an abstract and a decent paper.

During human evolutionary history, there were "trade-offs" between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signalling the circumstances. For some men, many short-term matings might be successful, whereas others might try to find and keep a single mate, investing effort in rearing her offspring. Recent evidence suggests that men with features signalling genetic benefits to offspring should be preferred by women as short-term mates, but there are trade-offs between a mates genetic fitness and his willingness to help in child-rearing. It is circumstances and the cues that signal them that underlie the variation in short and long-term mating strategies between and within the sexes.

http://www.bbsonline....gangestad.html


i.e. women adopted short term mating strategies with more genetically fit men. the lower testosterone homely looking ones were considered good long term "father" material.