'Semen makes women happy'. That's remarkable conclusion of a study that compared the mood of women who's their partner use condoms and without condom during intimacy.
"I want to clarify that we do not recommend that people abstain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at the University of New York, who led the study, as reported from Newscientist, Thursday (29/04/2010).
According to him, clear unwanted pregnancy or STD's would more than offset a big impact psychologically beneficial effects of semen.
In this study, the team divided 293 women in some categories of how often their partners wore condoms, and assessed the level of happiness using the Beck Depression Inventory tool. People with low scores are the most unhappy and score more than 17 is considered quite depressed.
And according to research results that have been published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, the symptoms of depression and suicide attempts are more common in women who used condoms regularly compared with those not.
The result of research that will lead to this controversy shows that women who are directly exposed to semen would be more rarely feel stressed or depressed. Researchers think this is due to changes in mood caused by female hormones in semen are absorbed through the womb.
It is not too surprising, because semen contains several mood-changing hormones, like testosterone, estrogen, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin and several different prostaglandins. Some women have been detected in blood one hour after exposure to semen.
Many people also asked if oral's has the effect of increasing the same mood. According to Gallup, it can only apply to oral's , at least some of the chemicals in semen act like steroids in birth control pills that can survive the digestive process.
