Portalgue-That is a remarkable conclusion of a study that compared the mood of women using condoms during sex with a no.
"I want to clarify that we do not recommend people abstain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at the University of New York, who led the study, as reported from Newscientist, Thursday (29/04/2010).
According to him, clear unwanted pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease would more than offset the impact of beneficial psychological effects of semen.
In this study, the team divided 293 women in some categories of how often their partners wore condoms, and the level of happiness was assessed by using Beck Depression Inventory. People with low scores are the most happy and score over 17 is considered quite depressed.
The result, women with partners who never used condoms scored 8 on average, women with partners who sometimes used condoms scored 10.5, a 11.5'd always use condoms and women who never had sex scored 13, 5.
And according to research published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, the symptoms of depression and suicide attempts are more common in women who used condoms regularly compared with those not.
Results of research will lead to this controversy shows that women who are directly exposed to semen would be more rarely feel depressed or depressed. Researchers think this is due to women's mood swings caused by hormones in semen are absorbed through the vagina.
It is not too surprising, because semen contains several mood-altering hormones, like testosterone, estrogen, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin and several different prostaglandins. Some have been detected in the blood of a woman hours after exposure to semen.
Many people also asked if oral sex has the effect of increasing the same mood. According to Gallup, it could apply to oral sex, at least some of the chemicals in semen act like steroids in birth control pills that can survive the digestive process.
But further research is needed to determine whether exposure of semen through oral or anal sex will be the same effect on mood in heterosexual and homosexual couples.
"I want to clarify that we do not recommend people abstain from using condoms," says Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at the University of New York, who led the study, as reported from Newscientist, Thursday (29/04/2010).
According to him, clear unwanted pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease would more than offset the impact of beneficial psychological effects of semen.
In this study, the team divided 293 women in some categories of how often their partners wore condoms, and the level of happiness was assessed by using Beck Depression Inventory. People with low scores are the most happy and score over 17 is considered quite depressed.
The result, women with partners who never used condoms scored 8 on average, women with partners who sometimes used condoms scored 10.5, a 11.5'd always use condoms and women who never had sex scored 13, 5.
And according to research published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, the symptoms of depression and suicide attempts are more common in women who used condoms regularly compared with those not.
Results of research will lead to this controversy shows that women who are directly exposed to semen would be more rarely feel depressed or depressed. Researchers think this is due to women's mood swings caused by hormones in semen are absorbed through the vagina.
It is not too surprising, because semen contains several mood-altering hormones, like testosterone, estrogen, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin and several different prostaglandins. Some have been detected in the blood of a woman hours after exposure to semen.
Many people also asked if oral sex has the effect of increasing the same mood. According to Gallup, it could apply to oral sex, at least some of the chemicals in semen act like steroids in birth control pills that can survive the digestive process.
But further research is needed to determine whether exposure of semen through oral or anal sex will be the same effect on mood in heterosexual and homosexual couples.