Someone mentioned not long ago that, next year, it will be sixty years since the first Kinsey report was published. I guess the report created a sensation at the time--but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, and there have been numerous sex research projects since Kinsey published his reports. The study of people's sex lives has almost become passe. Presumably the researchers have studied all aspects of human sexuality.

I haven't actually read any of the major published sex research reports, although I have seen some of juicier excerpts from some of them. The only sex researchers whose works have been published and whose names I can remember offhand, are Kinsey, Hite, and Masters and Johnson. I think you can actually now get a degree in sexology at some universities.

So, what I wonder about is, whether any members of this board have read any of the major sex research reports, and if so, do they deal with the various effects of low sex hormone levels on sexual attitudes and sexual activity? Before I began to access this message board, I would have thought that sex researchers might think it unproductive or even absurd to research the sexuality of individuals with low sex hormones, since those persons are presumed to be out of the loop, so to speak, where sex is concerned. At the time Kinsey did his work, hormone replacement therapy was not generally available, and may not have been available at all, so I would think it was presumed that, once hormone production was eliminated or drastically reduced, the result would be the end of sexual activity, and that was that.

However, it seems that a considerable number of archive members engage in a substantial level of sexual activity, even if they aren't taking replacement hormones, and it would be interesting to find out if sex researchers have found that to be true of the portion of the general population who have low hormone levels. Another thing which may just be my impression, is that it seems that those who are gay, have more active sex lives after orchiectomy or after they begin to take androcur or another testosterone-reducing drug. I wonder if any differences of that type between people of differing orientations have been noted.

Since there are probably a considerably larger number of women than men who have had their gonads removed, due to the fact that some physicians routinely recommend taking out the gonads when a hysterectomy is performed; perhaps most sex research on individuals with low sex hormone levels, would involve women. Just thinking about it, I don't think I've ever heard of a drug being taken to reduce estrogen levels, but I would suppose that there are drugs which have that effect--and that would increase the number of women who have low levels of sex hormones.

I doubt that those who have researched sex in the past, have done any directed studies on males with orchiectomies or with low hormone levels, as some members of the Archive are now doing. But it still seems like an aspect of sexuality which would have attracted the attention of some researchers. Perhaps something of the sort has been done in India, where there are a considerable number of identifiable individuals who have had orchiectomies.