A nasal spray that makes you feel like having sex for a few hours. Neuroscientist Julie Bakker (51) from the University of Liège hopes to bring her life’s work to the market in a few years. Bakker tells Het Nieuwsblad that both men and women are interested in it. But she makes it for women who don’t enjoy sex. And according to Bakker, there are plenty of them and many women find that annoying
When she made a call for test subjects, her mailbox filled up. “Many women with libido problems struggle with it terribly. Sometimes they say: Does it already exist? Now give me that pill. ” Bakker, of Dutch descent, has been researching the differences between men and women in the brain for almost thirty years. In recent years she has focused on the networks in the brain that are important for sexual behavior and “motivation”, or sex drive. “There are many differences between males and females, but the differences in sexual behavior are very large.
Certain areas of the brain, such as the hypothalamus, are important for both sexes, but it is a completely different mechanism. ”
“In men, the lust system is always” on “. From puberty, when testosterone is produced by the testes, that system is active. Men are also much more visual. The brain is quickly stimulated, for example when seeing photos, videos, or a beautiful woman on the street.
In women, lust is also induced by hormones, but before a woman gets a sense, an essential chain reaction must start. In women, therefore, lust is really a matter of the brain. ”
Bakker thinks he has understood the mechanism and hopes to be able to manipulate it with a pill.
We all know that in postmenopausal women, when hormone production stops, lust decreases. In women over forty, around 60 percent suffer from reduced libido. They are also the largest group in my mailbox. But younger women also present themselves. Women in their late twenties, early thirties, with or without a family.
But is it bad? And should it be solved with a medicine?
Bakker in the Nieuwsblad: “And what about Viagra? Let’s say: You can’t get it up again, too bad for you? You can say: people want too much today. But that’s just how society has developed. I am 51. I don’t want to live the way a 51 year old woman lived in 1920. ”
Spend 5 to 10 years in the store
Sources): Newspaper
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