Female Repression

The Kinsey Report, presented the first scientific analysis of female sexuality in 1953.  Contrary to traditional beliefs, it showed that the majority of women experience intense sexual desire,  and sexual excitement and can achieve orgasm.  It even claimed that some 15% of women enjoy multiple orgasms.  The general media reaction varied from skepticism to moral outrage. The social climate of the time was not ready for hormonally potent women.

Along with the general trend towards social emancipation of women, acceptance had grown by the time William Masters and Virginia Johnson began using electrodes attached to the vagina to record female orgasms in the 1960's. But Puritan morality still held sway, and for much of America, Great Britain, and Europe, a woman's sexuality concerned marital service to her husband. Attempts to enhance sexual and hormonal health, or even to work out the mechanisms, were seen as pandering to the unholy hedonism of Pagan rituals.

Today science has prevailed, and we know that women have the same physiological potential for sexual and hormonal potency as men. Western society is slowly accepting that the hormonal suppression of women is an uncivilized remnant of medieval morality. Science has shown that male and female hormonal potency are both driven by the same physiological mechanisms. World expert, Professor Helen Singer Kaplan, Director of the Human Sexuality Program at Cornell University, keeps a running review of all major studies. There is no longer any doubt that both male and female libido and emotions depend on the same biochemical activity of certain nerve circuits in the brain.

One essential component for these areas to function properly is a critical level of the hormone testosterone. Yes, testosterone is not only the stuff of bulls, stallions and real men, but women too. Men need more testosterone than women, but if it drops below the gender-required level in either sex, libido declines to a whimper. And so do confidence, well-being, love, and zest for life.

Scientists now accept that testosterone fires not only male and female sexual desire, but also controls many other attributes to potency in both sexes. But just as the repressive morality of yesteryear was yielding to science along came the medicine men to spoil it.

Medical Sexual Repression

The oral contraceptive pill was introduced in 1959. Ask most women today, and they still cannot tell you how it works. Almost all forms of the pill work by suppression of female output of gonadotropins, hormones that stimulate sexual functions. The 1995 Physicians Desk Reference repeats this statement more than 50 times between pages 615 and 2748.

Some of your most important gonadotropins are those that stimulate manufacturer of testosterone. In suppressing gonadotropins to prevent conception, the pill also suppresses testosterone as a side effect. Suppressed along with it are all the other attributes of your sexual potency, including libido, confidence, courage and general well-being.

Very few of the more than 14,000 women who have come to the Colgan Institute for nutritional analyses, had been told by their physicians of these side-effects of the pill. Most are told the opposite, that the relief from the anxiety of becoming pregnant offered by the Pill, will increase sexuality. As you will see, that view is contrary to the evidence.

Restrictive religions morality used to keep many women docile and sexually repressed by the same mechanism. Studies show that women brought up to believe that sexuality should be restricted to marriage and childbearing, have lower testosterone levels than those with more liberal attitudes.

Just when religious norms were changing to become more consistent with the new roles of women in today's world, moral suppression of sexuality was replaced by much more insidious and harmful chemical repression, by the contraceptive pill.

Continuation of this hormonal suppression lifelong is now almost routine, even continuing after menopause, as incorrect estrogen replacement therapy. It is an indictment of health-care systems throughout the Western world, that nearly half of all women have their hormonal health progressively damaged by steroid hormones for most of their adult lives. But don't fret. True hormonal emancipation of women is coming fast.

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