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Does anyone think this a lot of this is hormone driven? I know there are studies that show sperm counts are dropping due to chemicals, but I haven’t been able t

Does anyone think this a lot of this is hormone driven? I know there are studies that show sperm counts are dropping due to chemicals, but I haven’t been able to find anything regarding testosterone levels. I’m not arguing that having higher testosterone will make women more attracted to men, but having higher testosterone undoubtedly gives you more energy/confidence to succeed in life (which probably makes you more attractive to women).

seydor 4y ago
no , unless you mean that increasing testosterone will make men oppress women again so they can have more equitable distribution among themselves. "This" is the result of max level sexual competition. If anything, if it were hormonal it would affect disproportionally more the high-partner-count males compared to low-partner, which would flatten the distribution
poszlem 4y ago
Well, there are some interesting papers suggesting that women on the pill prefer less masculine men. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/study-women-on-birth-control-pills-prefer-less-masculine-men/274464/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/study-wom... Personally that is one of my personal favourite, perhaps not conspiracy theories, but a "wacko" theories that can explain a lot of our modern world.
- GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
  By interesting papers you mean "paper" singular and it was conducted at a science center with no control. > Target participants were 170 male-female couples (aged between 18 and 73, mean = 35.8, SD = 11.3). All couples reported to be heterosexual. We collected data and images from 333 couples who were visitors to a science exhibition centre and who responded positively to a face-to-face invitation to participate.
  - poszlem 4y ago
    That is just one paper about one facet of the issue. "Although this general idea and the research looking into it is still in its infancy, the data that do exist suggest that the pill might influence who you’re attracted to, the dynamics of your relationships, the quality of your sex life, how jealous you are, how you respond to your partner’s face, how sexy you are to others, and your likelihood of getting a divorce." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528282/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528282/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://www.smr.jsexmed.org/article/S2050-0521(16)30022-1/pdf https://www.smr.jsexmed.org/article/S2050-0521(16)30022-1/pd... https://www.scraigroberts.com/uploads/1/5/0/4/15042548/2010_cobey_paid.pdf https://www.scraigroberts.com/uploads/1/5/0/4/15042548/2010_... https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/5/767/1753384 https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/5/767/1753384 https://www.unm.edu/~gfmiller/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf https://www.unm.edu/~gfmiller/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/

seydor 4y ago

no , unless you mean that increasing testosterone will make men oppress women again so they can have more equitable distribution among themselves. "This" is the result of max level sexual competition. If anything, if it were hormonal it would affect disproportionally more the high-partner-count males compared to low-partner, which would flatten the distribution

poszlem 4y ago

Well, there are some interesting papers suggesting that women on the pill prefer less masculine men. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/study-women-on-birth-control-pills-prefer-less-masculine-men/274464/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/study-wom... Personally that is one of my personal favourite, perhaps not conspiracy theories, but a "wacko" theories that can explain a lot of our modern world.

GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
By interesting papers you mean "paper" singular and it was conducted at a science center with no control. > Target participants were 170 male-female couples (aged between 18 and 73, mean = 35.8, SD = 11.3). All couples reported to be heterosexual. We collected data and images from 333 couples who were visitors to a science exhibition centre and who responded positively to a face-to-face invitation to participate.
- poszlem 4y ago
  That is just one paper about one facet of the issue. "Although this general idea and the research looking into it is still in its infancy, the data that do exist suggest that the pill might influence who you’re attracted to, the dynamics of your relationships, the quality of your sex life, how jealous you are, how you respond to your partner’s face, how sexy you are to others, and your likelihood of getting a divorce." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528282/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23528282/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://www.smr.jsexmed.org/article/S2050-0521(16)30022-1/pdf https://www.smr.jsexmed.org/article/S2050-0521(16)30022-1/pd... https://www.scraigroberts.com/uploads/1/5/0/4/15042548/2010_cobey_paid.pdf https://www.scraigroberts.com/uploads/1/5/0/4/15042548/2010_... https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/5/767/1753384 https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/5/767/1753384 https://www.unm.edu/~gfmiller/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf https://www.unm.edu/~gfmiller/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21993500/