However, Dr Hope said female sex drive was a complex phenomenon which was not fully understood.
Until now, treatment has included vaginal lubricants and therapy with the female sex hormone oestrogen.
Tamoxifen blocks the female sex hormone oestrogen that fuels the growth of some breast tumours.
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Elizabeth, 56, underwent a male-to-female sex change operation in 1981 and married Michael Bellinger the same year.
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Dr Perls suggests that the main determinant of both lifespan and age of menopause may be oestrogen, the principal female sex hormone.
The current combined pill, which contains progesterone and another female sex hormone oestrogen, has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.
The cause of this condition is unknown, but it is thought that it might be caused by elevated levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen.
Because the female sex drive is hypergamous, Princeton women, as Patton asserts, will be attracted to men who are their cognitive or educational equals or superiors.
For example, higher levels of the female sex hormone estrogen can stimulate the growth of breast and endometrial cancers, and fat cells are known to produce estrogen.
That means that although she has been brought up as a girl and lives as a woman, she may prove to have both male and female sex characteristics.
These hormones include cortisol (which is related to stress), estradiol (the main female sex hormone) and prolactin (which, as its name suggests, triggers her breast tissue to develop the ability to secrete milk).
In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).
People with HSV-2 can protect their partners from contracting the virus by using male or female condoms during sex, and by taking virus-suppressing drugs.
In fact, Hurd urged the firm to let the workers go, because their loud argument could cause another kind of legal problem: A female employee sensitive about sex discrimination could feel that a supervisor who agreed with Rep. Akin was hostile to women, which could open up the employer to a hostile work environment sex discrimination suit.
Sergeant-Major McKinney is accused of grabbing, fondling and intimidating female subordinates with demands for sex.
Standard evolutionary theory says that females should generally be the choosy sex because a female's maximum reproductive output is more limited than a male's.
Last month a doctor and his assistant in Haryana were sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female foetus and then agreeing to abort it.
The Supreme Court has in recent years backed limits on class actions, most notably in the 2011 decision that stopped a suit against Wal-Mart involving up to 1.6 million of its female employees who complained of sex discrimination.
Other doctors simply don't want to broach the subject of sex with their adolescent female patients, he said.
Poe was a master at making enemies but he also craved praise and female companionship, though not necessarily sex.
Chronicling the travails and triumphs of four single Manhattan women, Sex spawned a devoted female following and later a cottage industry that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue--and not just for the media giant.
The female lawyers look more like Charlotte of Sex and the City than like Miranda.
And Wal-Mart could use some female-friendly press after a massive sex-discrimination lawsuit involving 1.5 million women narrowly missed proceeding to the U.S. Supreme Court last year as the largest employment class-action in history.
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Hans Ellegren and Ben Sheldon, two biologists at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, and their colleagues, have demonstrated that female collared flycatchers do indeed adjust the sex ratios of their broods according to the sexiness of their mates.
Abramson had fired a female employee, who promptly threatened to file a sex-discrimination suit.
Wal-Mart, a Lean In "partner, " is facing sex discrimination claims from 2, 000 female employees in 48 states.
For example, one way to track the reproductive cycle in a female is to follow the waxing and waning of sex hormones.
They said hormone treatments such as tibolone (Livial) which used male sex hormones called androgens, rather than female hormones, were more successful in increasing libido.
The loss of all the skilled female workers meant it was hard for anybody of either sex to get health care or education any longer.
When Tom Cruise fell our of the movie Salt, Jolie stepped in and the producers gleefully changed the sex of the lead character from male to female.
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