Kick him in the face, I'll try to remember that

I know way more than I ever wanted to know about the mating habits of rats and I also learned a little bit about the "libido in an atomiser."

Here are the bits I found interesting and/or hillarious from the Let Us Spray article in The Observer.

('On the five-point scale,' said patient 041, 'I would rate the erection I had as a six.')

'In a rat, there's a mating ritual,' says Palatin's CEO Carl Spana. 'The female rat will approach the male head-to-head. She will wiggle her ears, she will wiggle her whiskers, she will nibble at him, and finally she'll turn and run away.' If the male chooses not to pursue her, she may return and, as one leading rat sexologist puts it, 'kick him in the face'. This tends to do the trick.

Tiefer is one of the leading figures in a movement of academic researchers, sex therapists and women's-health activists contesting the increasing medicalisation of women's sexual problems...
Tiefer is just as dubious about PT-141, which, as she sees it, is merely the latest expression of a 'big wish' that 'we could just bypass everything we want to bypass' on our way to sexual happiness, skipping the complicated, often lifelong work of sorting out all the emotional, physical and autobiographical triggers that turn us off and on. Her prognosis for the discovery of a drug that will render that work unnecessary? 'Sorry, it's never going to happen.'

Autonomy, in other words, is as real an aphrodisiac as any substance known to science.