From: Nicky Molloy
Subject: IUFO: AIDS Virus and Sexual Desire
Date: 15 Jul 2000 07:37:02 -0400
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AIDS Virus and Sexual Desire
Reuters
8:40 a.m. Jul. 12, 2000 PDT
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37527,00.html
DURBAN, South Africa -- Infection with the AIDS virus could make men more
amorous, which could make them more likely to pass on the virus, U.S.
researchers said on Wednesday.
A team at the University of California, Berkeley, said they were checking
out one of the basic premises behind natural selection -- that organisms
that happen to create conditions favorable to themselves will out-compete
other organisms and thus become more numerous.
"From an evolutionary perspective, HIV would benefit by influencing its
human host to increase sexual activity," they said in a presentation to the
13th International AIDS Conference in Durban.
Philip Starks and colleagues checked studies that measured testosterone
levels in male and female HIV patients. The hormone affects sex drive in
both men and women.
"Although testosterone levels generally decrease during later stages of the
disease, testosterone levels appear to be elevated in early stages of
infection for HIV positive males," they said.
They did not find the same effect in women, but men needed to be told about
the risk.
"Males at risk, or in early stages of infection, should be counseled that
HIV infection may increase sexual desire."
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