____________, (2004)”Low Sex Drive: Mom’s fault?” THE WEEK, June 11, p. 19

According to NATURE NUEROSICIENCE, baby male rats whose mother takes aspirin or other painkillers during early pregnancy causes the males to have low sex drive in adulthood. Rat studies are still important because the nervous system of rodents have similar qualities to humans.

This serendipitous finding suggests that pain meds block hormones called prostaglandins, which help develop masculine traits. The findings also raise questions about indomethacin used to treat premature labor.

The authors fear the reduction of sex drive.

For those with elevated sex drives, the author’s interpretation of the above is off base. High sex drive cause repeated sex imagery and preoccupation with sex all day long. It is also linked to irritability, compulsive masturbation, attraction to extramarital activities with numerous impersonal partners, pornography and discomfort most of the time. High testostorone is linked to aggression, lack of empathy, impulse crime and related. In other words, elevated and normal testosterone could be an enemy to civilization. After a male turns about 25, testosterone begins to drop and the biological aspects of one’s moral conscience fully develops in the prefrontal cerebral cortex. One begins to have a more balance human being. Theologically, testosterone could be a highway to hell.

If you use the basis that a monogamous partnership marriage is a preferable arrangement, males are continually frustrated. Generally sex drive of males is more prominent than many but not all females. Therefore you have two troubled partners when it comes to sex.

If painkillers reduce sex drive, one could argue that it could strengthen marriages. Males would feel a lot happier and so would many or most females. Anecdotal information from transsexuals who move from male to female is that the relaxation of sex drive makes life much less troublesome. Preoccupation with sex is more limited. The desire to break moral barriers is reduced.

This position is surely not anti-sex; rather it is against antisocial behavior. Further if sex drive needs to be strengthened to help a relationship, there are medications for that.

This may be a new paradigm worth considering. The sex industry may decline a bit, but they will find other ways to make money.