Now here’s something I hadn’t known:

Scientists have found that both men and women who had lower levels of the hormone vasopressin find it difficult to stay in a long-term or monogamous relationships.

So that man or woman known for spreading it around rather more than might be quite seemly (say, Samantha from Sex and the City) can claim that it’s nothing to do with their morals at all. It’sthat they are in fact disabled, vasopressin deficient…or in the more modern manner of constructing such tags, differently vasopressed?

I’ll have to see whether, if the opportunity to do the straying presents itself of course, whether my wife will buy that particular argument.

The other suprise was this.

Alcohol depletes testosterone in men, and therefore can inhibit their performance. But it speeds up testosterone production in women. Testosterone controls sex drive in both men and women.

The debilitating effect beer can have on male performance I am of course all too aware of. Any and every male who drinks of course is. But what I hadn’t known was that alcohol has the opposite effect on testosterone production in women. Finally, now I know the answer to one of the great mysteries of life.

Why is that men always try to buy women drinks?

Not, as I had previously thought, so as to get them drunk enough that they’ll succumb, not just to get those beer goggles working, but to increase their testosterone levels and thus their very desire for sex.

Amazing what you can learn on the internets, isn’t it?