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Article: The Sex Drive
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 26, 1987
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Once it was known simply as "desire," and it was the stuff of
poets and novelists.
In this scientific age it is the "sex drive," and although
researchers of many disciplines have analyzed it from every angle, it
remains as elusive and mysterious as ever.
"People have been studying the sex drive for a long time now,
and nobody can say exactly what makes people feel more or less sexy,"
says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana
University. "We do know the sex drive varies a lot from one person to
the next and within the same person from one time to the next. There
is no one answer. There can be many causes."
Although researchers say sex is seldom far from the ...