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...1960s, published some of the first scholarly studies of human sexuality. Those studies concluded that sexual response proceeds in distinct stages, beginning with excitement--erection in men, engorgement of vaginal and clitoral tissue in women--proceeding to orgasm and finally to "resolution," in which tissues return to their normal state...
Women too seem to have problems getting interested in sex when their testosterone levels are too low, which is why Procter & Gamble is experimenting with testosterone patches. Says Altman: "When women are having normal menstrual cycles in their prime reproductive ages, their ovaries make two times more testosterone than estrogen." A few days before ovulation, triggered by surging levels of testosterone--along with other hormones including progesterone and estrogen--sexual desire peaks, according to new research by Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago that dispels a long-held theory that fertility precedes desire...
...imaging techniques, doctors are closing in on some possibilities. Their efforts are leading them to the hormone oxytocin, which may be the key lubricant for the machinery of sex. Known for controlling the muscles of the uterus during childbirth, oxytocin surges up to five times as high as its normal blood level during orgasm. Studies in animals have also revealed oxytocin's softer side. It is responsible for helping individuals forge strong emotional bonds, earning its moniker as the cuddle hormone. Released in the brain, oxytocin works in the blood, where it travels to tissues as distant as the uterus...
...This is a very unusual doubleheader from a time when we all lived in a normal America,” Lydon said. “Tell us how good it was and how to get back to where we were...
With the downturn in the economy and new jobs being generated at below-normal levels, demand for AmeriCorps programs like YouthBuild is at an all-time high. “There are 2.4 million low-income youth across this country who have not completed high school or they’ve finished high school and they don’t have jobs,” said Vugrin. It will be very difficult for these people to get jobs that pay enough to support themselves and their families and help the economy unless the federal government allocates money to train them...