So, if you’re feeling blue get married.
It seems that marriage benefits depressed individuals.
Maybe that’s because if you’re married you’re more likely to have sexual intercourse without a condom.
Some dufus thoughtful and well-meaning psychologist at the State University of New York in Albany spent god knows how much time doing research he claims shows …
“that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful — and potentially addictive — mood-altering chemicals.”
This from Psychology Today — should we expect less from them.
We now have the answers to all the important mysteries in life.
We won’t bother to address how it would only take a child’s plastic scissor to cut the studies to threads — the second at the very least. You’re all too smart for that.
Enough said.
I’ll tell you what takes away my blues. Working only half of a day and being able to spend the afternoon working from home. Yup that’s enough to lift me out of depression.
No semen or marriage in my future.
I read about this too and couldn’t believe what I was reading. It seems to me that there are plenty of holes in this study.
Plenty of holes is right. What a waste.
I think “dufus” was an appropriate term.
I bet you wouldn’t even need a child’s scissor. I bet you could blow on that study and have it come tumbling down.
Not that I haven’t been plenty happy as a married man.
Correlation is not causation. It seems to me a woman has to be pretty depressed to put on a condom.
I see the AIDS epidemic reaching an all time excess no thanks to this research. However; if there were any truth in his studies; the divorce rate would not be so high!
Me thinks that Doug gets a bit sicker every day – in a good way
Uh…I never quite know what to say about “research” of this nature, but always wonder who the funder was. Maybe they’ll pass me some dough so I can study something as inane.
In refering to your title and last sentence, that’s ditto for me.
zydeco: Show me a good study and I’ll buy you a drink. Serious waste of whatever it cost in time or cash.
jacob: I like the word dufus, it’s too bad there are so many of them around.
Doug: I think he missed that class.
Yeah I hope to never get that depressed.
poetress:
Not only that but what a waste of whatever resource it took for the study. When as you said AIDS in Africa not to mention potable water is so scarce — and we have verifiable research on that; it just seems a shame to waste oney in this way not to mention magazine time.
Pia: Whatever Doug is it’s in a good way.
kellypea: In his case I believe it was State of NY, but it cold well have been funded privately who knows.
Leigh: I’m gasping for breath in surprise.
Wouldn’t be the first study to make the correlation versus causation mistake.
also you mixed up Doug and Pia
EW: And it won’t be the last, but it’s a shame. Fixed. I am doing too many things at once. What is a wombeditor for anyway.
Thinking about marriage makes me depressed. And I don’t think any amount of semen is going to help with that
Enjoy the good things you have. I’m glad you are not the type who “needs” a man to make your life complete.
I wonder if they forgot to corolate the percentage of depressed women who caught a disease or got pregnant because they decided not to use a condom?
Waste money on useless research, then do another study on why this depresses folks.
Ridiculous.
Huh. So not only is a woman not whole or able to be happy without Dick but now, she needs Dick’s, um, spit?
Huh.
I am so biting my tongue on this one…
It’s gonna take MILLIONS in tapayer-funded grant money to invesigate all the residual hypotheses:
Sex Causes Depression
Condoms Cause Depression
Latex Causes Depression
Rubber Causes Depression
Depressed People Buy Condoms…
(Good news for the graduate students who’ll be paid to have unprotected sex in the control group, though.)
It’s been said. A waste. It will breed more waste, just so Psychology today has something to print.
I can only give notes if you’re there to take them =P
Came across yer post at Benedikt’s Blog* I’m in the process of setting up a new WP Blog today + it’s always something*
After stressing over all these little niggly details like themes + layouts + fonts i needed a Laff*
thx fer yer Funny Post Coop!!
Cheers!! Billy
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Damn, Billie Holiday. Good Stuff. Off the main topic, but I was listening to your play list again. There is some fine old stuff there. ( I won’t mention the stuff I find not so much).
Conceivably I could write whole blog post in your comment section while listening to your play list.
Wonder if I can fit one of those in a wordpress.com blog?
You can find out a lot about people by listening to the music they find worth marking on a play list.
De buen vino, buen vinagre.
These studies = very bad vinegar and of them no good will come.
Coyote: It would make me depressed as well. I think it best just to not think about it. Your second question is quite valid.
joe:yup.
Mizzy B: ha ha, as the saying goes I don’t swallow I bite.
Al: I vote for them taking your money.…;)
ah, but is it worth their life?
John: What else are they good for?
EW: I would be here but I was there that and I get nothing done when you are here.
Billy: Nice of you to stop by. Yeah I love that theme but I need widgets because I do not need any of the stuff in the sidebar, I prefer to add my own things.
Cheers.
Jacob: It is damn good stuff. I thin you can. Not sure.
Kait: Absolutely right. I couldn’t have said it better in English.
Where do these scientist come from with this? So it’s not possible that when couples join, that the brain’s tolerance levels becomes so impossible to ignor so many guilts that the realization of denile could induce depression?.…
Something tells me this scientist experimented by tasting his (or her of his) own semen, and he noted how depressed he was as a result…LOL..just my own scientific theory.
I love this.….…..its great! Brilliant..truly brilliant.
I’d like to meet the idiot who did that research…and what pray tell do they say about married people? They don’t get depressed? I know…they would rather shoot themselves!
Ev: I would hate to see him when you were finished. ;0
Oh, I don’t know… this kind of statements can be used in other situations too.
I for an example, claim that marriage helps people with back problems. Mr Lifecruiser is like a radiator and warms my back up and therefor less back pains.
Butt of course, that demands that you sleep in a narrow bed like ours: about 35 inches wide.…
*giggles*
Thirty-five inches?
Just slightly over my hip size.-