Study discovers that rubber ducks might be directly responsible for facepunchers being unable to fin
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[B]How household plastics could ruin your sex life[/B]
Phthalates are found in numerous items around the home, and even in food packaging. So it’s a little worrying that they’re being linked to, among other things, a decrease in libido in women
plastics linked to sex drive Is your sex life under threat from the plastic items all around you?
Research into the effects of phthalates on women’s libido has yielded some strange headlines. Witness the Daily Telegraph’s “Rubber ducks can kill your sex drive”. Apparently, plastic shower curtains – the bath theme is coincidental – are also to blame. These, along with countless other household items, contain phthalates (pronounced THALates), a group of chemicals usually introduced to plastics in order to increase their flexibility. The libido problem is best not addressed with a sex toy because lots of those are thought to contain phthalates too. In fact, phthalates – there are around 25 of them – proliferate in daily life to such an extent that they are present even in the enteric coating of some pills. (Last year, the EU published a draft guideline [pdf] on phthalates in medicinal products.)
The latest study, led by Dr Emily Barrett at the University of Rochester in New York State, was presented this week to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s annual conference in Honolulu. Barrett measured the levels of phthalates in the urine of 360 pregnant women. She collected further evidence by interview, asking the same women how often they lost interest in sex in the months leading up to their pregnancy. Asking people to express publicly a memory of their feelings from several months ago may not appear to be the most watertight research method. However, each of the 360 women showed traces of phthalates in their urine. Those with the most were two and a half times as likely to have low libido as those with the least.[/quote]
[quote] Barrett measured the levels of phthalates in the urine of 360 pregnant women. She collected further evidence by interview, asking the same women how often they lost interest in sex in the months leading up to their pregnancy.[/quote]
hmm... doesn't seem like this is a good method of analyzing whether a womens sex drive is affected by this, seeing as how they have actually had sex to be there
[editline]27th October 2014[/editline]
just seems like another dumb correlation study instead of actually linking it to any metabolized process
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