Editing Progesterone (section)

===Sexuality===

====Libido====
{{See also|Sexual motivation and hormones}}
Progesterone and its [[neurosteroid]] [[active metabolite]] [[allopregnanolone]] appear to be importantly involved in [[libido]] in females.<ref name="King2012">{{cite book |vauthors=King SR |title=Neurosteroids and the Nervous System |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1fOTC6CP3kC&pg=PA44 |date=9 November 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4614-5559-2 |pages=44–46}}</ref>

====Homosexuality====
Dr. [[Diana Fleischman]], of the [[University of Portsmouth]], and colleagues looked for a relationship between progesterone and sexual attitudes in 92 women. Their research, published in the [[Archives of Sexual Behavior]] found that women who had higher levels of progesterone scored higher on a questionnaire measuring homoerotic motivation. They also found that men who had high levels of progesterone were more likely to have higher homoerotic motivation scores after affiliative priming compared to men with low levels of progesterone.<ref name="pmid25420899">{{cite journal | vauthors = Fleischman DS, Fessler DM, Cholakians AE | title = Testing the Affiliation Hypothesis of Homoerotic Motivation in Humans: The Effects of Progesterone and Priming | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 44 | issue = 5 | pages = 1395–1404 | date = July 2015 | pmid = 25420899 | doi = 10.1007/s10508-014-0436-6 | s2cid = 9864224 | url = https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/testing-the-affiliation-hypothesis-of-homoerotic-motivation-in-humans(d1eb5448-5664-4d2d-8694-18f970836cbb).html | access-date = 2 August 2023 | archive-date = 23 September 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200923005905/https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/testing-the-affiliation-hypothesis-of-homoerotic-motivation-in-humans(d1eb5448-5664-4d2d-8694-18f970836cbb).html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="UoP-News-Homos">{{cite news |title=Homosexuality may help us bond | work = UoP News |url=https://uopnews.port.ac.uk/2014/11/25/homosexuality-may-help-us-bond/ |access-date=2 July 2019 |archive-date=2 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702203503/https://uopnews.port.ac.uk/2014/11/25/homosexuality-may-help-us-bond/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="The-Telegraph-2014">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11251206/Having-homosexual-thoughts-is-an-essential-part-of-human-evolution-study-suggests.html|title=Having homosexual thoughts 'is an essential part of human evolution' study suggests|date=25 November 2014|website=The Telegraph|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=15 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215160336/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11251206/Having-homosexual-thoughts-is-an-essential-part-of-human-evolution-study-suggests.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="HuffPost-2014">{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/homosexuality-evolution-social-bonding_n_6218406|title=New Study Identifies Evolutionary Basis Of Homosexuality|date=26 November 2014|website=HuffPost|access-date=21 October 2023|archive-date=27 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127222130/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/homosexuality-evolution-social-bonding_n_6218406|url-status=live}}</ref>