14 Nov 08 Testosterone boosts women’s sexual desires

Testosterone ramps up women’s sexual desires, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Procter & Gamble-funded study — with the acronym APHRODITE — involved 814 women treated at 65 different locations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Sweden and the U.K. All of the women had what is medically referred to as “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” — a chronic lack of interest in sexual activity. Study participants received 150 micrograms or 300 micrograms of testosterone a day delivered via a patch, or a placebo patch with no testosterone in it. Nobody (clinicians or women) knew who got what until the end of the study.

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