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10 january 2011



Sex turnoff: just say no-and cry


Source: www.examiner.com  - Examiner - USA


LOS ANGLES- A not uncommon experience for women in Los Angeles-and elsewhere in the U.S.-is an unwelcome sexual advance. The word “no” is often used; however, its impact can be increased by shedding a few tears. According to a new study by Israeli researchers, women’s tears are a turnoff for men. These findings regarding the role tears play in non-verbal communication, suggest that a chemical in women’s tears lowers men’s testosterone levels. The research was conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv, Israel. The male participants were asked to sniff the tears of women who had cried while watching sad films. According to one of the researchers, Dr. Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute, the researchers had expected the tears would boost the men’s sense of empathy. Instead, however, their heart and respiratory rates, salivary testosterone, and a brain scan all pointed to a reduction of sexual arousal. Dr. Sobel noted that the chemo-signal in women’s tears is one way of saying, “No, I am not interested.” He added, “Communication is key to survival. Humans, like all mammals, use smell in their communication. It is very efficient if you have a chemical signal which transmits what you want--or clearly don’t want--in a sexual situation.

Beyond avoiding an unwelcome sexual advance, the researchers noted that their findings might have an application for cancer treatment. Dr. Sobel said, “There are a number of illnesses that are treated by lowering the levels of testosterone, the most prominent is prostate cancer.” He said that the medications currently used to lower testosterone levels have untoward side-effects; he and his research team are hopeful that the use of substances in tears could avoid those side-effects.

Dr. Sobel said the researchers had set out to study the tears of both men and women. He explained that his research tem believed that men’s tears would also transmit chemical signals, perhaps serving to reduce aggression in other men. Unfortunately, however, only one man responded to a notice put up on Israeli college campuses, which asked for volunteers who thought they could cry easily.

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