Scientists are those people dressed in white that spend most of their time looking down at microscopes and conducting research, on various topic, but sometimes their attention turns to even basic things. Like sex, for example.

Recent studies have shown that the brain, not the hormones are the most important part of sexual pleasure. Well, now that is a scientifically proven fact, we might say that some people have figured it out on their own ever since Adam and Eve, although they had no idea what hormones and brain actually mean.

Anyway, Howard P. Greenwald of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Ruth McCorkle of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., said surgical intervention for cervical cancer often involves removing the ovaries, which leads to a decrease in the testosterone level, the hormone that is an important factor in both male and female sexual behavior.

They conducted a study on 179 women who were long-term survivors of surgical treatment for cervical cancer and found out that most of them could still enjoy having sex, even though they were supposed to be scientifically unable to feel desire or pleasure.

The researchers found that more than 80 percent of the cervical cancer survivors reported being sexually active. Whereas, 81.4 percent said they sometimes, almost always or always desired sexual activity and 90.9 percent indicated they enjoyed sexual activity at least some of the time.

Of course, hormones are important in sexual behavior, but emotions usually overcome biology, the scientists concluded. And, we couldn’t agree more.