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• 19:00 26 June 2002 by Raj Persaud
Semen makes you happy. That's the remarkable conclusion of a study comparing women whose partners wear condoms with those whose partners don't.

The study, which is bound to provoke controversy, showed that the women who were directly exposed to semen were less depressed. The researchers think this is because mood-altering hormones in semen are absorbed through the vagina. They say they have ruled out other explanations.

"I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, the psychologist at the State University of New York who led the team.

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

Suicide attempts
His team divided 293 female students into groups depending on how often their partners wore condoms, and assessed their happiness using the Beck Depression Inventory, a standard questionnaire for assessing mood. People who score over 17 are considered moderately depressed.

The team found that women whose partners never used condoms scored 8 on average, those who sometimes used them scored 10.5, those who usually used them scored 15 and those who always used them scored 11.3. Women who weren't having sex at all scored 13.5.

What's more, the longer the interval since they last had sex, the more depressed the women who never or sometimes used condoms got. But the time since the last sexual encounter made no difference to the mood of women who usually or always used condoms.

The team also found that depressive symptoms and suicide attempts were more common among women who used condoms regularly compared with those who didn't. The results will appear in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

And Gallup told New Scientist that his team already has unpublished data from a larger group of 700 women confirming these findings. In this study, the always-use-condoms group were more depressed than the usually-use-condoms group, suggesting the discrepancy in the smaller study was a sampling error, he says.

Alternative explanations
But is it really the semen that affects women's mood? The researchers say they looked at alternative explanations such as whether women who seldom use condoms took oral contraceptives, how often they had sex, the strength of relationships, and the possibility that having a certain type of personality influenced the decision to use condoms. But none of these factors can explain their findings, they say.

In fact, the results aren't a complete surprise because semen does contain several mood-altering hormones, including testosterone, oestrogen, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone, prolactin and several different prostaglandins. Some of these have been detected in a women's blood within hours of exposure to semen.

The question many people will ask is whether oral sex could have the same mood-enhancing effects. "Since the steroids in birth control pills survive the digestion process, I would assume that the same holds true for at least some of the chemicals in semen," Gallup says.

"I understand that among some gay males who have anal intercourse, it is not uncommon to attempt to retain the semen for extended periods of time," he adds. "Suggesting, of course, that there may be psychological effects." But further research will be needed to confirm whether exposure to semen through oral or anal sex really does affect mood in heterosexual or homosexual partners.

But why should semen have such an effect? "It makes no sense to me for this phenomenon to have evolved," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. But Gallup counters that men whose semen promotes long-term mood enhancement might have more chances to indulge in sexual activity.

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Mmmm! Semen!
Thu Nov 29 02:01:25 GMT 2007 by Teehee!
I'm gunna try that lol. =3
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Scientists Fail To Think Intellectually
Thu Nov 29 14:49:17 GMT 2007 by Ould
"But why should semen have such an effect? "It makes no sense to me for this phenomenon to have evolved," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania

This is yet another example of reasearch that lends credit to my idea that sex is pleasurable for human beings because of our higher intelligence.

With intelligence comes the constant craving to occupy that intelligence with input of new information and ideas.

Logically, anything that holds no interest and prevents you from doing something that does will be loathed.

Intelligence also has the capability of overriding instinctual behavior.

Therefore, If sex wasnt enjoyable, we would be too busy doing enjoyable things to have it.

Women tend to climax less than men during intercourse, which understandably could cause them to be less interested in the act than men.

So seminal fluid delivers chemicals that cause happy feelings, which could then cause the woman to associate intercourse with a happy content feeling that comes afterwards, which could then encourage her to do it more often.

Rinse and repeat untill conception. Yay evolution!
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Scientists Fail To Think Intellectually
Fri May 16 05:06:23 BST 2008 by Angela
Sex is 'pleasurable' BECAUSE it is a biological survival instinct - latent within our DNA. It is was unpleasant - why bother with it? and then... No more homo sapiens...

Sex serves a function - REPORDUCTION- and evolution of the species. Therefore, it's gotta be fun.

Haahaa ;-)

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Scientists Fail To Think Intellectually
Tue Oct 21 17:10:50 BST 2008 by Irv
Well; with all respect I don´t think sperm wpuld be the diference but SEX WITHOUT CONDON, I mean most of us have wear condon some times, but eventually when you settle down and got ¨permanet partner¨you just avoid were condon, because we hate the sensation we me loved eyaculated innner the women, that makes happy women and men, but it si not the sperm. Come on.
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Scientists Fail To Think Intellectually
Wed Oct 22 03:24:48 BST 2008 by Sf
Lawlwut? learn how to spell?

lmao
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Scientists Fail To Think Intellectually
Sun Jan 24 21:28:39 GMT 2010 by lololol
WHAT KIND OF GORILLA BOOTY LANGUAGE IS THAT
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