Sexual strategies: role of hormones:

Men: androgens (testosterone) produced in testes and the adrenal gland sensitises regions of the brain underlying sexual motivation removal of the testes (i.e. cancer) results in decreased sex drive, but still some production in brain women: oestrogen produced by ovaries and androgens produced by adrenal gland androgens associated with sex drive postmenopausal women can still have high sex drive due to androgen production