Yesterday, as my colleague Eli Sanders notes below, the New York Times ran a story about a study that links bike seats to male sexual dysfunction - impotence, reduced blood flow to the penis, numbness, and loss of libido. What the story doesn’t talk about, except in passing, is whether female cyclists are affected, too. The story notes casually that female cyclists “have not been studied as much as men,” but adds, alarmingly, that they “probably suffer the same injuries.”

Clearly, female sexual problems aren’t as marketable as male impotence. But surely, I thought, there must be some studies out there on similar problems in women cyclists. As it turns out, there’s been exactly one: In 1999, a Boston University study of 232 female bicyclists found that 32 percent of women experienced injuries that impacted their sexual function - about the same rate as men.