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Semen is 'good for women's health and helps

fight depression'
Range of chemicals in semen 'promote mental well-being and feelings of affection',
say researchers
By Eddie Wrenn for MailOnline
Published: 12:40 GMT, 21 August 2012 | Updated: 16:24 GMT, 6 September 2014

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Stimulating: Chemicals within semen can fight depression and 'increase affection'

Oral sex is good for women's health and makes you feel happier, according to a study which studied the effects of
semen's 'mood-altering chemicals'.
The State University of New York study - which scientists carried out via survey rather than through practical
experiment - compared the sex lives of 293 females to their mental health.
It follows research which shows that seminal fluid contains chemicals that elevate mood, increase affection, induce
sleep and also contain at least three anti-depressants.
The researchers also claim that women who have regular unprotected sex are less depressed and perform better on
cognitive tests.
Semen contains another of chemicals along with spermatozoa, including cortisol, which is known to increase
affection, estrone, which elevates mood and oxytocin, which also elevates mood.
It also contains thyrotropin-releasing hormone (another antidepressant), melatonin (a sleep-inducing agent), and
even serotonin (perhaps the best-known antidepressant neurotransmitter).
Given these ingredients - and this is just a small sample of the mind-altering 'drugs' found in human semen Researchers Gallup and Burch, along with the psychologist Steven Platek, hypothesised that women having
unprotected sex should be less depressed than suitable control participants.

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To investigate whether semen has antidepressant effects, the authors rounded up 293 college females from the
university's Albany campus, who agreed to fill out an anonymous questionnaire about various aspects of their sex
lives.

'THE BENEFITS OF SEMEN'

Other recent findings from Gallups laboratory suggest that semen-exposed women perform better on concentration
and cognitive tasks and that womens bodies can detect 'foreign' semen that differs from their long-term or recurrent
sexual partners signature semen.
They suggest the ability to detect foreign sources is an evolved system that often leads to unsuccessful pregnancies
- via greater risk of preeclampsia - because it signals a disinvested male partner who is not as likely to provide for
the offspring.

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Their findings also suggest that women who have unprotected sex with their partners - and therefore are getting
regularly inseminated by them - experience more significant depression on breaking up with these men than those
who were not as regularly exposed to an exs semen, and that they also go on the rebound faster in seeking new
sexual partners.
Recent sexual activity without condoms was used as an indirect measure of seminal plasma circulating in the
womans body.
Each participant also completed the Beck Depression Inventory, a commonly used clinical measure of depressive
symptoms.
The most significant findings from this study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, were that, even after
adjusting for frequency of sexual intercourse, women who engaged in sex and 'never' used condoms showed
significantly fewer depressive symptoms than did those who 'usually' or 'always' used condoms.
Importantly, these chronically condom-less, sexually active women also evidenced fewer depressive symptoms than
did those who abstained from sex altogether.
By contrast, sexually active heterosexual women, including self-described 'promiscuous' women, who used
condoms were just as depressed as those practicing total abstinence.
The research suggests it is not just that women who are having sex are simply happier, but that happiness levels
might be related to the quantity of semen within their body.
NHS doctor explains depression and what treatment is available

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Alex Ellis, Hull, Yorkshire, England, 2 years ago

Nice one Eddie - Keep up the good work son.

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Alex Ellis, Hull England, 2 years ago

Good old Eddie :-)

james , bexhill, uk, 2 years ago

I have been waiting for research to be done like this ever since i reached my teens, and i am so happy it has been done
what great news, now how to get my girlfriend to take it seriously, im just trying to help
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TimWalsh, Dublin, 2 years ago

Why are English people so Ignorant? Having an article like this on the front page is offensive but the comments are
incredibly ignorant. What is the English male's obsession with sexually humiliating themselves.
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Ian, Ontario Canada, 2 years ago

We've beentrying to tell you women... !

Samantha, UK, 2 years ago

This article has been making me giggle all day, and so have the comments. I like to think it could be true but I just can't
believe this. Written by a man much??? Lol :)
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Tasha, San Francisco, CA, 2 years ago

So why only limit it to women? Men should DEFINITELY start taking doses of it too...there are plenty of depressed,
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unhappy men out there. They should make pills so it's available to everyone, then maybe everyone would be happy ;-)
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SP, London, 2 years ago

Hmmm...it might just be the women having regular unprotected sex are more likely to be in a sexually active and clearly
trusting, loving relationship, therefore happier than women using condoms who may either be at the early stages of a
relationship (and so more insecure) or having several partners (and less emotionally fulfilled). Just a thought! I can also
imagine the (male? single? virginal?) scientists looking for a link as a potential chat-up line!!!
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Disgusted, Mississippi, 2 years ago

It all makes sense now: why a good sense of humor is important for getting laid. If the dude has a good sense of humor,
he must be toting a big bowl of baby batter waiting to go in the oven. If she has a good sense of humor, she is probably
the the most available repository for said baby batter. I wonder if takes in the joy juice in a suppository fashion, if the
effects are same.
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Andy, Altrincham, 2 years ago

bacterial tonsilitis anybody?

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