I’ve heard this one before, and often wondered whether it is more of a wive’s tale or an actual medical fact, as I’m sure you may when you hear it if you haven’t already heard the “rumors”.  That is, the fact that men’s semen may actually provide a mood boost for women. 

The reason they think this is that they had done surveys for women whose partners both used and did not use condoms, and found that women whose partners did use condoms scored lower on depression tests than women whose partners did not use condoms and hence were exposed to semen in their vaginal walls, scored higher on depression tests, higher meaning they reported less depressed feelings.

What this infers is that women who have semen regularly in their vaginal walls and absorb semen seem to get some sort of mood boosting benefit from it, perhaps from the hormones that are in the semen, although no one is 100% sure why this is.  I thought maybe the findings could even be unrelated to the actual fact that these women were exposed to semen in the vagina, and rather because of some other factor, like they were more secure and spontaneous in their relationship or something like that. 

In statistics, this would be called the confounding variable aspect of the stats since it could potentially be something unrelated to the fact they are exposed or not exposed to the semen, but rather something that is indirectly related and has to do with the relationship, not the biological factor of semen absorption.  Perhaps their libido was better, their sexual satisfaction was better - it is unknown. 

There have even been writeups about the connection between male semen and women’s depression in psychology journals, so there does seem to be at least some anecdotal evidence that there is a connection between the two and that women who are getting plenty of sex, without condoms, are happier than their counterparts who aren’t getting sexual intercourse with condoms, or not getting it at all.  See, sex really does have a lot to do with happiness, for women sexual enhancement too!