New Study Suggests Plastic Kills Women's Sex Drive!

A new study has suggested that plastics can severely impact the sex drive of women.

Plastic shower curtains along with countless other household items, contain phthalates (pronounced THALates), a wide range of chemicals usually introduced to plastics in order to increase their flexibility.

The latest study, carried out by Dr Emily Barrett at the University of Rochester in New York State, was submitted this week to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s annual conference in Honolulu. Barrett measured the levels of phthalates in the urine of 360 pregnant women. She collected further evidence by asking the same women how often they lost interest in sex in the months leading up to their pregnancy.

Asking people to express publicly a memory of their feelings from several months ago may not appear to be the most watertight research method. However, each of the 360 women showed traces of phthalates in their urine. Those with the most were two and a half times as likely to have low libido as those with the least.

Barrett’s study focused only on women, although previous research by the same university (published in 2009) explored the link between phthalates and the “feminization” of boys.

So it seems low sex drive in women has been found to be linked to the amounts of plastic in day to day life and so it is best not to address the issue with sex toys since most contain plastics.


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