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...Smith says she suffers neither side effects nor withdrawal symptoms but accepts others do. Of those who do pay a price for less depression, many have no regrets. The pills may have switched off their libido and sapped their energy, they say; going off them may have triggered weeks of nausea and nightmares. But the drugs also hauled them out of a blackness from which escape had seemed impossible. "We know they work," says Smith. "Exactly how they're doing it . . . we haven't got that...
Calorie restriction has its downside, though, and it's not just hunger. Weindruch's monkeys experience changes in bone density, and other labs have reported changes in libido, menstrual cycles and body temperature in calorie-restricted monkeys. And Sinclair's worms and flies suffer from loss of appetite and fertility. Researchers hope to create drugs based on resveratrol or on the genetic research that would avoid those pitfalls...
...Jack Orman, an executive producer of CBS's forthcoming Dr. Vegas, with Rob Lowe (The West Wing) as a playboy casino doctor. "That generally leads to trouble, which leads to dramatic situations." But for all the sex and show girls, a closer look at the programs reveals Bennettian contradictions: libido and law, hedonism and moralism, revelry and regret. They let the audience, vicariously, be bad and get spanked...
...sexually active women who had been sterilized or were using an IUD found that intercourse was 24% more frequent during what would have been the fertile part of their cycle--although these women were clearly not looking to procreate. So why the urge? Researchers speculate that a woman's libido may rise during ovulation or that her sexual attractiveness to partners may increase. It could also be that intercourse accelerates ovulation. There aren't any definitive answers yet, but women who have unprotected sex and do not want to get pregnant should know that nature appears to be subtly working...
...Sexiling your roommate for the night is one thing; doing it all week long is something else entirely. If you and your libido have no other recourse, you’d better be ready to cash out a lot of money on “I’m sorry” gifts to make up for the permanent back-pain your roommate got from sleeping on futons. Prescription pain-killers are a nice gesture...