European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Doii Magazine Why booze messes up Romance by Patrick a. Malone United pita Inton wounds Shakespeare As usual said it about the paradoxical effect of alcohol on sexual desire the Porter tells Macduff in act two scene three of Macbeth it provoke and Unur Otohei it Provo Het the desire but it takes away the performance therefore much drink May be said to be an Cut locator Wuh itch losing weight try it make my and it Mart him it lets my on and it takes him of it persuades him and dishearten for years the usual explanation has been that Al Cohol unleashes the beast within but duds skin sensitivity. Anew study of what happens in the testes the body s chemical factory for the sex hormone testosterone suggests that explanation is not Only simplistic. It s wrong. Sixteen healthy adult men in their pfc took part in the study at Mclean Hospital s alcohol and drug abuse re search Center in Belmont mass a joint project with har Vard University. Each drank about four shots of 100-proof Vodka an then had his blood tested at 20-Mlnute intervals for the next few hours. The researchers measured changes inthe amounts of alcohol testosterone and another Hor Mone Lute ionizing hormone lain the is the chemical which produces puberty in boys and then regulates a Man s sex drive and Potency the rest of his life. La is a chemical secreted by the Phot tary Laad a pea sited gland at the Hue of the brain and serves As a messenger from brain to testicle. It carries the brain s work order to produce More testosterone. Or. Jack Mendelson director of the research Center described what the study found first we found that testosterone Levels fall with Alco hol consumption and Are at their most depressed Levels when blood alcohol Levels Are highest. Alcohol is broke Down in the liver but also in other tissues including the constituents of the testes which usually work in testosterone production Are diverted to breaking Down alcohol and when the fall in testosterone level occurs the compensatory response of the brain is to signal the pituitary gland to put out a Large amount of la Tein izing hormone to raise the testosterone surge of la activity we think is associated with increased sexual that mean that la is the body s own aphrodisiac not exactly Mendelson said. While la seems tomake men More responsive to sexual stimuli it is the testosterone which is necessary for the actual physical performance. Thus the contradictory effect of alcohol is a Chain reaction it cuts the testosterone level the brain reacts by sending out a work order to the testes in the form Folh but nothing happens because the testosterone producing cells in the testes Are still preoccupied with break ing Down the alcohol. But the brain does t know its work order was t car ried out. There is yet a third hormone involved with sexual arousal the one which signals the pituitary gland to make the la to Send to the testes. That is called Gerh Gonadotropin releasing hormone and it s secreted by the gland called the hypothalamus the part of the brain that regulates Many Basic functions such As sleep and body to Mendelson european investigators have successfully treated male impotence by giving men artificially produced Gerh. It has t been tried yet in the United states. United press International alright can leave them a were Nna hunger a increased appetite for sex that May threaten their Marrupes Iril Milr or his sex life. Two of the Contes divorced and the ethers reported varying degrees of Tress to deed marital and sex naj problems. The researchers. Drs. John r. Nelu of the universe Tyne Tait Edwand drs. John r. Marshall and Charles e. Of be Mucky Anu in
