# Do muscular hairy women have better sex than delicate perfect-complexioned women? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850 "2003-04-10T19:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/21 "2003-04-11T23:45:58Z")
- - - Any other guys feeling the strange urge to poison the yogurt supply with testosterone? ~ ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/22 "2003-04-12T02:39:06Z")
> [@](#): > > When women have their ovaries removed, for example, they lose their ability to produce testosterone completely, and the result is often a complete loss in sex drive. On the other hand, women who’ve had their ovaries removed, in the newfound freedom from whatever medical problem motived the removal, go crazy. Menopausal women can also do this. Additionally, there’s the problem of measuring a woman’s sex drive. There are women who consider themselves to be horny beasts, but show little, if any physical evidence. I don’t know, maybe they aren’t happy in the lab. On the other hand, there are, and I think we all enjoy reading about this, women who claim puritanical views but react strongly to mere words and pictures in the lab. ---
**Author:** ![Cavalier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Cavalier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cavalier)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/23 "2003-04-12T05:25:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > \*\*And is it really as simple as that quote (where is that from?) implies: amount of testosterone = amount of sex drive. > > I mean, men must have hundreds of time more testosterone than woman, but don’t think they’re HUNDREDS of time more horny than women (even women who aren’t me). \*\* From [this interesting article on testosterone](http://www.cyberiron.com/drugs/testosterone.html): > [@](#): > > In the case of testosterone, women on average have about 40 nanograms of the hormone per deciliter of blood, and a score of 120 would rank as extremely high (and very likely result in hirsutism, acne and other problems of excess androgens). > > Men, by contrast, normally have anywhere from 300 to 1,000 nanograms of testosterone per per deciliter, or 10 times a woman’s concentration. > … > Hypogonadal men report a sharp drop in sexual interest, which testosterone replacement quickly restores. The androgen may also play a role in female sexuality, and a growing number of menopausal women are asking that testosterone be added to their hormone replacement regimen to restore a lackluster libido. But the data linking sex drive and testosterone in women are fiercely debated. > > Testosterone therapy also appears to give men and women more energy, vim, the desire to leap out of bed in the morning and embrace the demands of the day with can-do concentration. That zestiness is not the same as aggression, which if anything is often accompanied by poor concentration and underlying malaise, researchers said. So no, having a lot of T doesn’t mean you will have a big sex drive, or big muscles and bodily hair. If that was so every man would be stronger, lustier and hairier than any woman, barring artifical enhancements and disorders. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > **Her name was Jeremy.** I think you’ve been had! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tarnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tarnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarnik)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/24 "2003-04-12T05:35:55Z")
Hmm, I think that _really_ hairy women would tend to have less sex…at least with me. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/25 "2003-04-12T07:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > \*\*Care to put your money where my…err…your mouth where…no…umm…care to put that theory to the test? 😃 > > Mmmmmmm…smooth skinned girls \*\* What, NOW you’re hitting on me (what happend to the abuse?) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/26 "2003-04-12T12:52:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > \*\*What, NOW you’re hitting on me (what happend to the abuse?) 😃 \*\* Sorry. Abuse is the second door down, on the left. 😉 And, it’s not “hitting on”, it’s heavily flirting. And… psst… I was flirting with you, then, too. You just weren’t picking up on it. ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/27 "2003-04-13T04:17:12Z")
Speaking as a somewhat hairy fat chick with PCOS and the resulting somewhat-elevated androgen levels: I am quite sure my bear-hairy Spouse has higher testosterone levels than I do. I have easily 50 times his sex drive. As in, for every time he wants sex once, I’ve wanted it 50 times. This is one reason we have an open relationship. I have one of the highest sex drives (that I know of) in my circle of female friends, but two of the ones who beat me out are much less hairier and less muscular than I am. I would guess that their serum testosterone levels are lower than mine, although obviously we can’t be sure. Most of the literature I have read suggests that the link between testosterone and sex drive is obscure at best in women, and not as direct as was previously thought in men. The book **Woman: An Intimate Geography** has some interesting chapters on this. ---
**Author:** ![marmar377](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marmar377](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marmar377)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/28 "2016-03-24T13:36:45Z")
i did not see hairy muscular women before, I wonder do they really exist:) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/29 "2016-03-24T13:43:05Z")
> [@marmar377](#): > > i did not see hairy muscular women before, I wonder do they really exist:) Do hairy muscular women ZOMBIES get more braaainnnnns? This thread is really old… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850/30 "2016-03-24T13:48:50Z")
And revived for no particular reason. Thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-muscular-hairy-women-have-better-sex-than-delicate-perfect-complexioned-women/167850.md?page=1)