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by Natalie Angier


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  * As Ethel Sloane points out in her excellent Biology of Women, "Everyone knows that a nymphomaniac is a woman with an excessive sex drive. Why is it that hardly anyone knows the same condition in males is satyriasis?" Is it because in women excessive lust is considered a disease worthy of a name tag, while in men the same drive is considered mandatory?

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