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Often Snow's act borders on the offensive. In order to squelch some annoying comments from a heckler, Snow did a series of jokes on pre-menstrual Syndrome. "My period is due in 4 minutes and I could kill you and not go to jail," Snow retorted...
...every organ in the body. Chronic heavy drinking increases the risk of myocardial disease and high blood pressure. Alcohol eats away at the stomach and intestines, causing bleeding in some drinkers. Alcoholic males may experience shrunken testes, reduced testosterone levels, and even impotence. Sustained drinking sometimes disrupts women's menstrual cycles and can render them infertile. Among expectant mothers, drinking can produce birth defects and is a major cause of mental retardation in American children. Even the immune system's efficiency is reduced by alcohol. Studies are under way to determine whether heavy drinking might cause AIDS to surface more...
...psychological consequences of this uncertainty can be significant. "We call it contragestation, not abortion," says Couzinet. "Many women think of it as an induction of a menstrual period. Compared with classical abortion, the procedure is so much better tolerated emotionally by women." RU 486 is expected to be a boon to victims of rape and incest, and to women who cannot, or do not, take the pill -- "especially," says Couzinet, "young women and teenagers whose sexual activity is very irregular and infrequent...
...further the effects of pheromones. Cutler said a "soup" of aromatic essences was taken from underarm pads worn by the volunteers for 18 to 27 hours a week over a three-month period. Male essence, mixed with alcohol, was applied to the upper lips of six women with abnormal menstrual cycles and no current sexual re- lationship. Although researchers are not sure whether the pheromones were inhaled or absorbed through the skin, the cycles of these women speeded up or slowed down toward 29.5 days. The irregular cycles of six women in a control group, dabbed with only pure alcohol...
Cutler and her colleagues found that regular sex eased problems of menopause and infertility by making menstrual cycles more regular. Still, she notes, "it wasn't clear until our most recent studies how important male essence really is, but now that we know this, it helps explain our earlier findings. You might say that exposure to pheromones is the essence of sex." Cutler is braced for an attack on her findings from gays and lesbians. She observes, in what may be the understatement of the year, "They may not accept this...