Posted on 10/07/2009 11:47:34 AM PDT by Stoat
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Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a female's interest in masculine men - and make boyish men more attractive.
'There are many obvious benefits of the Pill for women, but there is also the possibility that the Pill has psychological side effects that we are only just discovering,' she said.
'We need further studies to find out what these are.'
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Scientists have long known that a woman's taste in men changes over the menstrual cycle.
During the few days each month when they are fertile - around the time of ovulation - they tend to prefer masculine features and men who are more assertive.
On these fertile days, women are also more attracted to men who are 'genetically dissimilar', Dr Alvergne said. Picking a partner whose genetic make up is unlike their own increases the chances of having a healthy child.
On days when women are not fertile, their tastes swing towards more feminine, boyish faces and more caring personalities, researchers have shown.
However, if women are taking the Pill, they no longer have fertile days.
That means they no longer experience the hormonal changes that make them more attracted to masculine men - and those with dissimilar genetic make up.
'It is a possibility - but there is no evidence of this yet,' she said. 'We need a lot more research in this area.'
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Few people make me run to find the remote and switch the channel faster than Alan Alda.
I agree with you completely!
Most women nowadays don’t realize that Marilyn Monroe was a size 14—then! I’m sure the guys are well aware of that fact! LOL
Have you ever seen pre Hollywood photos of Marilyn? She was drop dead gorgeous and they ruined her.
Ladies were the women in the movies of the 40’s. Not what passes for ladies now. Women, maybe, but not ladies.
“Nonetheless, it seems like every other TV commercial (and many programs as well) features a “couple” of whom the female is invariably smart and sassy and “with-it”; she’s impossibly up-to-date with every new trend, idea and gadget; she can conduct a high-level business meeting in a power suit, then go home and cook a gourmet dinner before doing three loads of laundry, exercising at the gym and coming home late to work on her third novel before running out to give a speech at the UN in the morning.”
I was thinking about that very thing while watching a movie this weekend. Not particularly about women, but about the people in general. They could do all of that while still only getting up at 7 am and cooking a full breakfast on a work day!
Some women also say the size 14 was equivilant to size 6 now. Who to believe?
Remember how hot women thought the hair band guys were?
There is some truth in that observation, but I prefer to think of it as part of our modern cultural continuum which rejects "the normal" as it deconstructs the very idea of value. A prominent manifestation of that effort is to celebrate the weird, the bizarre and the perverse.
And so homosexuality is cheered and its exemplars promoted in only the most positive light, while "traditional families" are scorned. Gays on TV and in the movies are almost uniformly warm, sensitive, kind, thoughtful and funny people. In real life, some of them really are those things, but that's not the point.
For their part, the bad guys are often, well guys - traditional masculine types who drive black pickup trucks and drink beer (as opposed to Priuses and Chardonnay). They physically and/or emotionally hurt the women in their lives, who run (of course) to their girlfriends for comfort - which I suspect is no accident.
It is no accident, either that many New York and Hollywood scriptwriters are as gay as... well, if not "Macauley Culkin singing show tunes" than perhaps Liberace in a gold jumpsuit throwing kisses to Calvin Klein. It does explain a lot.
That's an astute observation, in that the entertainment world has long been biased toward Gay idylls and themes. In the 50's though, no one really took it seriously - it was just considered "camp" and caberet material. The women certainly did not swoon over Liberace, although apparently, Rock Hudson did.
Woohoo, the trifecta!
Lee received most of his fan mail from lovestruck (and clueless) old ladies, as did Paul Lynde.
I’ve heard that as well.
I don’t care anymore as long as my clothes fit and I don’t look like Jabba the Hut. :)
I swoon over Sam Elliot. I will turn up the radio just to hear the beer commercial he’s the spokesman for.
no, but get to the 70s and 80s they were all swooning over freddie mercury, elton john and david bowie.
Don’t know that I ever heard him. I adore strong voices and manly men.
Hm.... Why does a woman think she needs to take the pill for 40 years?
Hubby gets a big kick out of my fascination with voices.
Charles Kuralt
James Earl Jones
Morgan Freeman
Don Williams
I’ll take either one of them, and I’ll have to find a recording of Netanyahu. :)
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