VueWeekly.com – Andrea Nemerson
Dear Readers:
I’ve written plenty about testosterone: the then-new research demonstrating that high testosterone does not make a male a winner as much as winning makes a male have high testosterone, for instance, and the current vogue for prescribing testosterone for everything formerly ascribed, with a shrug and a sigh, to “getting older.” I’ve taught a bunch about hormones, describing estrogen, with its touch-and smell-sensitivity enhancing, “receptive” sexuality-producing qualities as the “fuck me hormone,” leaving chin-jutting bad boy testosterone to be described, inevitably, as the “fuck you” hormone. I’ve also been quick to explain that that’s a joke, son, and to debunk that characterization, emphasizing that women have and need T as much (if in lower quantities) as men do, and that aggressive men do not turn out to have higher levels than their meeker brethren. Without testosterone nobody gets laid, not even lesbians.