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Wendy says she would take a pill to help her. But critics of such treatments worry that while a pill could potentially improve sex for some women, others may be more harmed than helped. Debby Herbenick, a sex educator and researcher at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, does not deny that there is a biological cause of low libido. But she raises another kind of concern about drugs like flibanserin: What if they work? "[The problem] is far more complex than not desiring sex. What we really have is a group of women who wonder why they don't desire...
Teachers' and schoolgirls' hearts are made to be broken, and An Education makes that trip too. Virtually the entire cast contributes to make it an enchanting ride. Sarsgaard, a stalwart of Amer-indie films (Kinsey, Elegy, Jarhead) who as Trigorin was also Mulligan's love interest in The Seagull, easily inhabits David, making him a creature of charm and mystery. The smaller roles are nicely filled out as well, including Cara Seymour as Jenny's quiet mother and Matthew Beard as a gauche student whose dreams of dating a precocious teen Jenny and Jack keep smashing...
...interest spurned him. "He saw [Betty Conklin] as the ultimate coed and they learned to jitterbug together, but when school started, she invited someone else to the hayride," Watts writes. Suffice it to say that the jilted lothario-to-be rebounded. Hef's fixation with sex sharpened after Alfred Kinsey released his famous 1948 study. The following year, he married his high-school sweetheart, Millie Williams. But he soon began bristling at the constraints of monogamy. Risque parties quickly gave way to experiments like wife-swapping (with his brother!) and even a one-time homosexual tryst...
...polls do not settle the matter. Sampling is often flawed, questions may be sloppily phrased, and results sometimes vary erratically. More important, all the pollsters have to go on is what people say. New York Psychologist Mildred Newman reports that a close friend was interviewed for the Kinsey report on women. The friend, who led a robust and varied sex life, gave chaste and virginal answers because she was not willing to let anyone know how she really behaved. Nowadays many people may offer up attitudes designed to depict themselves as properly liberated. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger, while studying a kibbutz...
...What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this elaborate exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what romance is in a scientific sense," admits John Bancroft, emeritus director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind., a place where they know a thing or two about the way human beings pair up. But that limited understanding is expanding. The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its individual strands--the visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, neurochemical processes...