Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific consultant on the nature of drug addiction to two presidential commissions, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the World Health Organization, is not the first expert to conclude that the desire to alter one's state of consciousness is a drive as elemental as hunger, thirst and sex. But he takes the argument a radical step further by proposing that society would be best served if it accepted the inevitability of intoxication and launched an all-out effort to invent less damaging, nonaddictive substitutes for alcohol and the popular illicit drugs...
...speaking here of a man who sincerely believes that trading good grades for sex is "a pure, almost abstract example of tit for tat." A man who affectionately refers to his libido as "the Barker machine," characterizes women by their morals and their bodies (i.e., Gloria: lapsed Catholic, enormous boobs) and concludes that two attractive women out together are automatically lesbians (Why else would they choose the company of another woman over that...
Besides being emotionally stressful for some, menopause can bring physical discomfort and may lead the way to serious health risks in older women. When their reproductive years end and the production of sex hormones drops, women face not only the prospect of hot flashes and insomnia but also a greater chance of worse conditions, such as heart disease and a weakening of the bones called osteoporosis. Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have developed pills designed to replace the hormones the women have lost, and these drugs have come into wide use. Now, however, new questions are being raised about their...
...study, conducted in Sweden, involved 23,244 women who were taking various types of estrogen, one of the main female sex hormones, after menopause; a third of them were also on progestin, an artificial form of the hormone progesterone. The researchers compared these women with others who had not taken hormones. The results: after nine years the women who took a kind of estrogen called estradiol had about twice the breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy. The women on estrogen and progestin had a higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer...
MEDICINE: A hard look at sex hormones...