The Australian Women's Weekly

Anatomy of desire

anchovies and Spanx, testosterone is polarising. Australia is the first and only country to have a regulator-approved testosterone cream for post-menopausal women, and yet there’s still confusion. One reason for this, according to Professor Susan Davis, director of the Women’s Health Research Program in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, who has led groundbreaking studies on the subject as it relates to women, is that we see it as a male sex hormone. “It’s essential in women’s bodies too, playing

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