Dear Dr. Biner                                                            
        My wife wants to know your thoughts on Testosterone build up in   
caves. She claims that MALE cavers exude testosterone in confined spaces  
of caves and that this has influenced her to do more dangerous climbs and 
other stuff! I have never noticed this but she claims to have seen the    
vapor trails coming off male cavers as they free climb domes, slide       
accross the lips of pits, and lassoo stalagmites while holding on         
one-handed to muddy ledges. Any help would be appreciated.                
        Well thats about it. I'm gonna go back to watching my favorite    
info-mercials now. Is it true the answers you give are worth double the   
price of the questions? i thought so.                                     
                                                                          
Cave Softly and Eat Mo' Possum,                                           
Mr. and Ms. Anthrope                                                      
    
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Dear Anthropes,                                                           
                                                                              
Actually my answers are priceless, or worthless, depending on if you are
one of those people who leaves obscene messages on my answering machine or
not.  Not only do male cavers exude a healthy quantity of testosterone,
but in most caving situations where women are present, the male members
will outnumber the women and will thus have between them more estrogen
than the women have in their bodies.  Neither substance has to do with
scooting around the edge of pits and lassoing stalagmites, however. 
People that scoot around pits do so just because it feels good, and those
that lasso phallic-looking formations are acting out subconcious
speleo-sexual conflicts that probably began in their early teens.  But
there's nothing wrong with a little healthy angst.  The problem in all the
exuded hormonic gases comes when the two mix and create a gas called
"testostrogen".  This can cause a condition known as PMTST (pre-menstral
testicular survey thwarting) which creates discrepencies in survey data,
and causes the passage to retain water. 

Dr. Biner