Dragaera

Dzur and Sex

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Fri Jan 16 22:23:51 PST 2004

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Philip Hart wrote:

>
>I vaguely know that abnormally low testosterone leads to low female
>libido - is it the case that abnormally high t leads to high female
>libido? 
>

A few seconds of research indicates that it does:

  http://www.cbc.ca/national/science/testosterone.html

Although to be thoroughly accurate, I should state that
I read an entire book on the subject:

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071376283

>I vaguely thought estrogen levels were a) coupled in some complicated
>way to t levels and b) more important in libido.

Estrogen differs from testosterone by a very small degree; and
generally speaking a) is true.  (b) is not; it is generally recognized
in the medical realm that testosterone is by far more important in
libido.