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263: TREATING A HUSBAND
WITH HEIGHTENED
DESIRE

ɳ Question

A woman whose husband bothers her with excessive demands for
marital relations – may the physician allow the woman herself to add
[the medication] Androcor [a testosterone inhibitor] to her husband’s
food in order to lower his hormone level, thus reducing his excessive
demands, or is this forbidden?

I referred this question to Dr. Nachum Zilber and this was his
response:

If we allow a woman to give her husband Androcor without
his knowledge this could lead to chaos in family life. For ex-
ample, if the husband discovers what is happening he might
want to divorce her over it, or he may decide to give her a
taste of her own medicine and add medication that has an
opposite effect to her food or some other substance that is
harmful to her health. Supplying a wife or any other private
individual with medication [to be administered without
the recipient’s knowledge] should therefore be categorically
forbidden, because the eventual outcome of such practice
cannot be gauged. This could spread to every other area of
life – for example a business partner is unhappy about his
colleague’s high level of activity and slips medication into his

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