Prenatal Development
Premise
Mothers who use cocaine, crack or heroin during their pregnancies
have babies who are addicted to the substance which they were
taking [ref?]. Do babies become born addicted to nicotine if the
mother smokes? During sex, love and orgasms, hormones are produced
in the brain creating a high [ref?]. Do these hormones cross the
placenta into the babies bloodstream? When breaking up with a loved
one this "high" is lost and one goes through withdrawal [ref?].
Addiction. Do babies then go through withdrawal?
Question
Does the amount of sex and/or the presence and quality of a
romantic relationship during the mother's pregnancy affect the
child's sex life as an adolescent? As an adult? Are first-born
(typically the child when the couple is most sexually active [ref?])
more or less sexually active than children born later?
Things to Read
Androgens in Prenatal Development: Behavior Changes in Nonhuman
Primates and Men by Anke A. Ehrhardt. January 7, 1974.
ABSTRACT: Studies on nonhuman primates and on several human clinical
samples of genetic females exposed to high levels of prenatal
androgen have consistently documented modifications in several
aspects of sexually dimorphic behavior.
"More recently, animal experimentalists have documented that prenatal
sex hormones also influence CNS differentiation and, thus, certain
aspects of sex-related behavior. If androgen is present at a critical
time of differentiation, the exposed animal will exhibit more malelike
behavior when stimulated with androgen in adulthood. If androgen
is not present, the probability increases that female behavior will
occur after exposure to female sex hormones in adulthood."
Ehrhardt, A.A.; and Baker, S.W., 1974. Fetal androgens, human
CNS differentiation and behavior sex differences. In: Sex differences
in behavior, ed. Friedman. New York: Wiley.