Female Health
Physical boundaries and hormones. A dynamic duo.
You may have stumbled upon videos of this 1970s psychological experiment where children had the option of having a marshmallow as an immediate reward or two marshmallows if they waited 15 minutes being alone with a single marshmallow. The study (the Stanford marshmallow experiment, if you’d like to check it out) looks at delayed gratification. I bring it up because keeping physical boundaries when oestrogen levels are through the roof, around the time of ovulation, can feel a little like being tempted with the greatest reward we could access right at that time. Women’s bodies, their hormone cycles to be specific, are geared towards fertilising the egg at the time of ovulation, so, unsurprisingly, sexual