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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Desire is complicated. Arousal, by contrast, is pretty straightforward: fill the penile arteries with blood or divert blood to the vagina and clitoris, and you're there. "Once the brain gets turned on--however it gets turned on--it's a relatively simple concept to increase blood flow," says Dr. Alan Altman, a specialist in menopause and sexuality at Harvard Medical School. In men, a chemical that facilitates the flow is vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, a hormone that also directs the expansion and contraction of smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: The Chemistry of Desire | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Estrogen: Tablets (Vagifem), creams (Estrace, Premarin) and a silicone ring (FemRing) inserted into the vagina release estrogen to alleviate such symptoms of menopause as vaginal dryness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Love Potions | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...making a dinner date to talk about your sex life, or, if that is too difficult, earmarking a dirty story with a plot you want to try and leaving it on her bed stand. This all sounded reasonable until I realized that the instructors were holding a giant vagina hand puppet and standing next to a giant sign that said HOW TO PICK YOUR HARNESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spicing It Up | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...company staged the Vagina Monologues and an all-female version of The Merchant of Venice earlier this year, as well as an anti-war reading of Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athena Theater Company | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...Athena is definitely a feminist venture,” says co-founder Julia C. Reischel ’04. Reischel, Julia H. Fawcett ’04 and Heather J. Thomason ’04 were inspired by their first-year experience in a production of the Vagina Monologues. “It was a very supportive environment, and we wanted to recreate that. It’s more about the community than the craft...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Is Not Your Mother's Feminism | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

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