Competition Quote by Helen Fisher

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Success in everything from athletics to chess to the stock market boosts testosterone levels.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Testosterone also increases confidence and optimism, while decreasing fear and anxiety.5 This explains the “winner” effect in lab animals, where winning a fight increases…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a…

— Mike Huckabee

“When testosterone rises after a challenge, it doesn't prompt aggression. Instead it prompts whatever behaviors are needed to maintain status. This changes things tremendously...…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight.

— Ronda Rousey

“Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.”

— Helen Fisher

If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.

— Tyron Woodley

Testosterone makes you completely out of control, but that's okay.

— Jen Kirkman

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

— Erica Jong