Word: libido
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...cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways. At the start of Foxy Brown, Grier hides a gun in her bra. It's an image one imagines the young Tarantino appreciated...
...Actually, the Propecia program is just a one-fifth dose of Proscar, an existing drug used to treat enlarged prostates. And there are some rare (but deliciously ironic) side effects for men in search of lost youth: decreased libido and sexual dysfunction...
First, stock up on nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds are high in vitamin E. And research shows that vitamin E keeps testosterone from breaking down--and pushes that male libido into high gear...
Once I'd lost my pharmaceutical virginity, it was impossible to get it back. The Prozac, as my doctor had warned it might, stalled my libido. From approximately my waist down to my knees, I felt like the Invisible Man. I tried another drug, Effexor, but didn't like the trembling in my hands. Next came Wellbutrin. It packed a punch. The week I started taking it I was watching CNN when news of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination broke. I wept through the night and the following day. Oddly, the crying felt good, like a catharsis, and I wondered...
...ALSC has held two conferences of its own, where some of its 2,000 members heard papers on Dante and Dickens and reassured one another that it was still possible to discuss Auden's poetry without listening everywhere for the thump of his libido. They also try to offer an alternative job network for like-minded young Ph.D.s frustrated by the MLA job mart. "If young people didn't speak the language of race, gender and class studies, they couldn't get jobs," insists Professor Emeritus John Ellis of the University of California at Santa Cruz, an ALSC founder...