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[andrewducker]

Just in case you thought you had, y'know, any kind of free will:

Pill changes women's taste in men

I'd like to see more tests done here - they may, after all, be highlighting differences between those people who are more likely/less likely to take the pill rather than people affected by the pill. Still, interesting result.

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[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but usually there's a reason why people secrete different amounts of different hormones, so, again, if you're a girl with a brain that lends you to produce more testosterone, perhaps there's a parallel, rather that causal, link with aggression? Or, indeed, the fact that being a girl with high testosterone levels can make your appearance unorthodox, maybe you'd just be really pissed off about the teasing.

It's par for the course, naturally, that there are no women in the study who don't have a taste in men at all...

Ready for an overshare, though? I kind of buy the results, in that I tend to fancy men more (like, some rather than none) at times of the month that I could get pregnant. That could, definitely, be a psychological effect, but it's interesting, and not unique to me...

[andrewducker]

I've seen reports of similar studies before that showed that taste in men varied according to time in the menstrual cycle affecting hormone levels.

And I don't think testosterone levels are affected by the brain. The cases they looked at were genetic in nature - there's a "switch" which causes unusually high testosterone levels.