Craving for chocolate linked to strong sexual desire

WOMEN have compared chocolate to sex for decades.
Now doctors have discovered a scientific link between the two.
female chocolate lovers have a higher sex drive.
According to Italian researchers, women who eat chocolate regularly had the highest levels of desire, arousal and satisfaction from sex.
But for men, the findings of a British study were not so good.
Research has found men who are sexually promiscuous when they are young could be increasing their risk of contracting prostate cancer later in life.
The study suggests sex with lots of partners increases the risk of exposure to the human papilloma virus (HPV) and that such infections may kick-start the chain of genetic mutations that lead to cancer, often decades later.
HPV is already linked to cervical cancer in women, but the suggestion it might also cause prostate cancer in men is new.
If confirmed, it could explain why rates of the disease have surged in the Western world.
"HPV infects many women in their late teens and early 20s," said Tim Oliver, professor of medical oncology at the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
"We know this is linked to cervical cancer later in life and now we're seeing that in men it also lays the seeds for prostate cancer."
Dr Oliver's study follows research from Sweden that found men with high levels of antibodies against the HPV 33 strain of the virus - the same one involved in cervical cancer - were more likely to develop prostate cancer.
In the chocolate/sex study, urologists from Milan's San Raffaele hospital questioned 163 women about their consumption of chocolate and their sexual fulfilment.
"Chocolate can have a positive physiological impact on a woman's sexuality."
"Women who suffer mood swings as a result of their menstrual cycle may also suffer a dip in their sexual function.