Recent studies have found that women who take birth control pills are more attracted to feminine men than masculine men. One study showed that women are more attracted to a masculine man when they are ovulating and more attracted to a feminine man when they are not ovulating. Since the birth control pill keeps a woman from ovulating it makes sense that women on the pill would find themselves more attracted to feminine looking men. This might partly explain why we are seeing a decline in really masculine men. Men are going to respond to what women are attracted to. If you look at the kind of men that were considered attractive before the contraceptive mentality took over you will find men like Kurt Douglas and Sean Connery (in his early days). Today we find People magazine naming Johnny Depp the "sexiest man alive." In my opinion Johnny Depp is neither manly or sexy. What a sad state in our society to find that we are devaluing masculinity and encouraging men to be more feminine. You might be thinking that looks are not that important but it seems femininity is creeping into men's behavior as well. I will take a man in boots over skinny jeans any day.
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This study makes me wonder about lesbianism. Are those tendencies more prevalent when girls go on birth control earlier in life, or are on it period? Does this go to the extent that women start to become more attracted to women than men? I'd be interested to see what the scientists who did this study think about that.
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