Maybe those essential oils can actually improve female sexual arousal — if only via the placebo effect. Researchers “found that opening a new line of communication about sex can have a positive effect in many women with low libidos.” Whoa!
This is all defining the placebo effect broadly — women in the clinical trial analyzed by Texas researchers weren’t just taking a placebo. They were also given “tasks,” which included “talking to doctors about sex, being encouraged to have more sex and spend more time in the bedroom, and also writing down their feelings about sex.” They were fifty women, about ages 35-55, in a 12-week study, all of whom had reported some degree of “low sexual desire, low sexual arousal and problems with orgasm.”
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