Great Throughts Treasury

"You’re not just sleeping with one person, you’re sleeping with everyone they ever slept with."

"Saying that the use of condoms is ‘safe sex’ is in fact playing Russian roulette. A lot of people will die in this dangerous game."

"As a woman gets older, she usually manifests more traditionally ?masculine? traits ? decisiveness, assertiveness, physical sexuality and independence. Men expand their ?female? dimension of touching, tenderness, insight, patience and understanding."

"If appropriate treatment is delivered in a timely fashion, our generation can simply skip most of the mid-life miseries our parents and grandparents had to endure."

"If vasopressin is truly a monogamy molecule in humans, imagine this molecular tug of war - a clash of the Titans, if you please. Testosterone wants to prowl, vasopressin wants to stay home, and oxytocin [note: bonding agent] just wants to hold you and not think about it anymore."

"In Catholic school, I was taught that the disappointed uterine lining, not getting a fertilized egg to raise, weeps blood."

"Just as men are coming around, women in their thirties start heading the opposite direction ? subtle shifts have begun to occur in her hormonal balance, enabling testosterone to manifest its influence more prominently. In general, her hormones are making her less reticent and more proactive in going after what she wants."

"The biological urge we call the sex drive comes in two basic styles: aggressive and receptive. The aggressive sex drive is controlled not just by testosterone, as most people think, but by vasopressin, DHEA, serotonin, dopamine, and LHRH as well. The receptive sex drive? has been overlooked altogether? Receptive doesn?t necessarily mean passive [but] available, and perhaps willing, but without the initiative to pursue sex."

"When a modern woman reaches for the check, she doesn't realize that she is interfering with an ancient biological imperative."