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Male lust is blind, research suggests.

telegraph.co.uk — Men have long been accused of judging women on looks alone, but even the plainest Jane can get their hormones raging, a study has found. Or in the immortal words of Ol' Dirty Bastard: "I dedicate this to all the pretty girls...And the ugly girls, too, cause to me your pretty anyways"

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  • Ulisses, on 07/20/2008, -69/+20Nice submition.
    Buried for MrBabyMan :)
    • solesoul, on 07/20/2008, -9/+37why do you care?
    • DuffyDirect, on 07/20/2008, -24/+6thanks for pointing it out, i just buried it now too
    • CindyMindy, on 07/20/2008, -21/+6I also buried this for MrBabyman. He needs to get off Digg once in awhile.
    • zibox, on 07/21/2008, -2/+6dude get over all this mrbabymancrap.
    • Zarokima, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8And you people say HE needs a life.
    • goodposter, on 07/21/2008, -5/+3I Hate MrBabyMan.
    • Yookji, on 07/21/2008, -2/+3This guy cares enough to look at all of MrBabyMan's submissions, seeing as he posted his comment a mere 23 minutes after this article was submitted.
    • lanium, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3"submition" ?
  • diggit23, on 07/20/2008, -31/+136why is that bitch trying to bite her tongue off?
    • HappyScrappy, on 07/20/2008, -26/+13You need to work on your vocabulary.
      • wrathchilde, on 07/20/2008, -1/+30Pray-tell, what motivates such lingual mastication?
      • Reziarfg, on 07/20/2008, -1/+13Oh yeah?! Who you calling a masticator!?
    • ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/20/2008, -3/+28Scrappy is right. "Attempting" is a much nicer synonym.
    • Ademuth, on 07/20/2008, -0/+13Shes showing off her overbite...
    • cowsgonemadd3, on 07/20/2008, -17/+11Why do you cuss and call women bad names?Women dont find that attractive and its wrong!
      • diggit23, on 07/21/2008, -1/+8i dugg you up because that's the funniest thing that i've read all day
      • ByteGuerilla, on 07/21/2008, -2/+5What's twisting this bitch's tit?
      • cowsgonemadd3, on 07/21/2008, -2/+1Its the truth. And to BYTE....how sad.
    • Dday141, on 07/20/2008, -2/+15Who cares? It turns me on
      • ufee, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5Agreed. Bloody tongues make me hard as *****.
    • jd72277, on 07/20/2008, -2/+17because bitten off tongues are the new non-bitten off tongues.
    • russelbutt, on 07/21/2008, -7/+5that's anne hathaway.. and she ain't no bitch, bitch..
      • saisumimen, on 07/21/2008, -3/+3She knowingly dated a douchebag Italian scam artist who stole money from the Vatican...

        "She a bitch". ;p
    • kestrel7e7, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5Like a lizard's tail it will soon grow back.
  • sfury, on 07/20/2008, -16/+8dugg for the description alone
  • mark101, on 07/20/2008, -16/+2"dedicate this to all the pretty girls"?
    he says "women" doesn't he?
  • mark101, on 07/20/2008, -24/+2WTF is Testosterone doing in our spit anyways?
  • johndi, on 07/20/2008, -7/+110How drunk were the subjects in this test?
    • Koppie, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10Drunk enough.
    • WileEPeyote, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1I think you are joking, but;

      FTA
      "The study's authors believe the rise in testosterone may be an automatic and unconscious reaction that has evolved in man when faced with a woman, to prepare him for possible mating opportunities."
  • Zounas, on 07/20/2008, -4/+71You're*
  • tehhowch, on 07/20/2008, -4/+93So testosterone is the reason I talked to her?
    And all this time I thought it was the booze....
  • DeskFlyer, on 07/20/2008, -2/+44This should be a no-brainer.
    • BetterOffEd, on 07/20/2008, -14/+8Exactly... Talking to women is fun no matter who it is.

    • aptanalogy, on 07/20/2008, -8/+6The brain isn't the part that's involved...
    • gn0stik, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5There are a lot of guys who like to act like they can't get turned on by women who are not model quality. Most of us know this is ***** at some level. Those of us who are honest with ourselves know that being picky is the number one ***** block in the world. For every hot chick that snubs her nose at you, there's a not-as-hot friend of hers who would love to show you a good time.... word gets around.

      It always brings to mind one of my heros, Gene Simmons.
      I can't remember where I saw it, or read it, but Gene was on tour with Kiss, and his roadies, staff etc, would hang out and drink in the hotel bars etc. One night Gene comes in with the (then) miss america on his arm, and hops on the elevator with her, give them the thumbs up as the door is closing. The next night he does the same thing, with a rather large woman. One of his staff approaches him the next morning and asks about the obvious disparity in the quality of women he took home. Gene's response was,

      "Jim, you can't have steak every night."
    • ChrisshEnzo, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1A study conducted to prove then men see all women as potential partners. Seriously?
  • SaintDogbert, on 07/20/2008, -14/+29Interesting article, but the headline is misleading. The study showed testosterone levels went up no matter what the woman looked like. They didn't ask if the man fancied shagging the "stimulus." Testosterone does not equal lust.
    • Mist0r_Wiggles, on 07/21/2008, -0/+23exactly! my testosterone level went way up after watching The Dark Knight, but that doesn't mean i want to take the movie out for dinner and shagged it afterwards.


      ok, maybe just a little bit.
    • fluxion, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1perhaps they should've measured penis levels
  • migshark, on 07/20/2008, -2/+14Excellent field of research, I can't wait until they make scent-releasing horny grenades.

    But really now; you'd have to be a fool not to suspect SOMETHING. Hence you think you may be expected to attract the other person, or that you're secretly being evaluated in some other sense and so you consequently flout yourself a little. I know it's a slightly silly theory, but it's probably how I'd behave.
  • Shogi, on 07/20/2008, -1/+80All you have to do is observe animals to see that males are generally wired to ***** just about anything that moves.
    • punx, on 07/20/2008, -4/+17Yeah, guys are sick...thank God.
    • kookbutt, on 07/20/2008, -0/+41Whoooa, did you just move? [unzips pants]
      • stoikiometry, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1(kookbutt is talking to a venus flytrap)
    • DrunkenDigger, on 07/21/2008, -2/+6You're cute as hell. I could go down on you, suck you, line up three other guys, make like a circus seal. Eww, you bleepin' *****. I hate guys. I love women! I'll ***** this bitch, I'll ***** that bitch, I'll ***** anything that moves!

      -Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob), Clerks
    • FatLoser, on 07/21/2008, -1/+2http://digg.com/odd_stuff/***** ...
  • TheLoneWolf071, on 07/20/2008, -8/+54Pussy is pussy man.
  • SEANWOOKIE, on 07/20/2008, -11/+5I have a fetish for normal girls, that and chubbies.
  • MiniCooper2007, on 07/20/2008, -3/+26Forget the testosterone, use the boner test.
  • Tarnum, on 07/20/2008, -10/+40"to me your pretty anyways"

    It is important to distinguish “your” from “you are”. “Your” signifies ownership.

    /hail grammar gestapo
  • msk275, on 07/20/2008, -2/+18The True girl is looking hot today. Yes, I'm judging her on her looks alone. So sue me.
    • DuffyDirect, on 07/20/2008, -2/+4man no she's not -- her eyes look like a racoon
      • msk275, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2she has eyes? i didn't notice.. but yeah.. now that you mention it... her eyes are dark, I digg that. Don't be so judgmental!
      • DuffyDirect, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1i seriously hope you didnt digg me down on that *****, thats just lame whoever you two people are...
      • msk275, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I dugg you up just now to help you out... gosh.. what a bunch a fricking lame-o's!!!!!

        haha.
  • Somedude2137, on 07/20/2008, -13/+5I don't give a ***** if you like to screw manatees MrBabyMan.... all men don't share the same tastes as you
    • akohut, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1What? I don't think that's the point. I didn't read anything about manatees in the whole article!
  • insinuate, on 07/20/2008, -2/+61I'd hate to be the "not so attractive" girl they used in the test. "Hey You're pretty ugly, come here and be apart of our test!"
    • GregLoire, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5The article seems to imply that all the women were chosen on the basis of being moderately attractive, then from there they used subject feedback to rate how attractive the woman was perceived to be by each particular person.
    • meuse, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I don't think the researchers divided the girls into "attractive" and "not attractive" groups. Moderately attractive women were used, and the men were asked to rate the attractiveness of the women themselves.
      • hakkola, on 07/20/2008, -0/+12I find moderately attractive women, moderately attractive.

        Why would you rate moderately attractive women? It sounds like they've already been 'rated' and if they turn out to be rated higher or lower, they cease to be moderately attractive, if they ever were.

        I call this, the paradox of the moderately attractive woman.
      • reddikilowatt, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Moderately attractive women sometimes are more interesting than very attractive women. Not as much competition. May be more responsive to flirting than a very attractive women, etc.
    • meuse, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Damn GregLoire, replying while I'm still reading the article.
    • whyisntcakesin, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1yeah, but they probably got paid to be a part of the test... think about how many girls, and guys for that matter, get type casted as "the ugly one" or "the nerdy one". It may not be a self confidence booster, but at least they've got some coin in their pockets
  • mrsammercer, on 07/20/2008, -2/+11Ha, I was hoping the Telegraph actually quoted ODB, but only the first sentence of the description was lifted from the article.
    Also... Yeah, sure I'll hump on an ugly for for a night but that doesn't mean I want to brandish her on my arm at Thanksgiving Dinner.
  • gwydir8, on 07/20/2008, -3/+13Nice ODB quote!
    Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nothin to ***** with!
    • waldo686, on 07/21/2008, -3/+1WE at the asian delegation choose the rizza the jizza U-God, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah Wu Tang CLAAAAAN!
    • ByteGuerilla, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2'cause their kung fu is better than ours.
    • phre3k187, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2Diversify your bonds *****
  • ZeeZee2k, on 07/20/2008, -3/+2"The study's authors believe the rise in testosterone may be an automatic and unconscious reaction that has evolved in man when faced with a woman, to prepare him for possible mating opportunities."
  • brainwash, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7Dugg for grammatically incorrect Ol' Dirty Bastard quote. (his name isnt even grammatically correct, what are you people expecting?)
  • AchaIemoipas, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10"The stimulus people were told to engage in friendly conversation in a natural manner, or allow long pauses if the man elected not to talk."

    Flawed.

    "The stripper smiled at me, she wants me!"

    Interest is arousing.
    • fluxion, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1true story...interest takes ugly girls up a few notches. at least for a while
  • mayra1201, on 07/20/2008, -2/+10WTF is Anne Hathaway doing in that picture? She's not ugly.
    • D14BL0, on 07/20/2008, -1/+21Because MrBabySpam uses fake thumbnails to more diggs.

      Not that it's a bad technique, but it's just MrBabySpam. Submitting Telegraph. Again.
    • goodposter, on 07/21/2008, -2/+2More like *****.
  • SimonTB, on 07/20/2008, -0/+14"...exposure to a woman."

    I love the wording.
  • noliberalbull, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6alright everybody... ready for some fun. Go find your copy of Got Yo Money by ODB, and listen carefully at the very beginning. Now tell me, does he not say, and I quote: "Baby, I eat this chicken from right up out yo ass"?
  • tallulahvulture, on 07/20/2008, -3/+3that explains why he's with me
    • D14BL0, on 07/20/2008, -2/+3No, actually. You're smokin'.
      • MJDub, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2lolz haha i get it it's because she has t3h cigarette!~!!!!1!

        /sarcasm
      • Amadeus2490, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1No, it was because she sucks a mean dick.
  • pak314, on 07/20/2008, -0/+17"Their testosterone levels were measured with saliva samples and they were then taken to another room by a researcher under the guise of being there to solve a sudoku puzzle. "

    Perhaps men find Sudoku puzzles a little kinky.
    • Scaryclouds, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1The sluts want it every which way.
  • lazerus9, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2Play something mellow! Ladies don't like head banger music!:http://youtube.com/watch?v=d_Ii0MRrFF4&feature=rel ...
  • jabberwolf, on 07/20/2008, -8/+6Was this posted by a woman?

    Sorry but for the woman posting this, it probably is only true if you get us drunk enough.
    Only then can we be blind and wake up with a dog... but will be soon leaving in the morning in hopes the nightmares go away!

    Oh it was MRBABYMAN - yep a woman alright.
  • oublier, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1There has already been a billion articles submitted on this same article.... Buried.
  • kmattso, on 07/20/2008, -3/+6Clearly this testing took place in the UK. Simply not true in the US.
  • gogog0, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2more goes into deciding whether to go home with a girl than just hormones. for many men its important that they are seen with an attractive girl because it makes them look good to their friends and to other women.
  • worldnick, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I think women judge men more for looks and then project that on to themselves.
  • chrome0011, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4In other news: grass is green.
  • whyisntcakesin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1this would be relevant if men had no concious control over how they reacted to the rise in hormones. obviously if you're a young man, and there's a girl present, your hormone levels will increase. it's just a matter of whether you do the sudoku puzzle to keep from making an advance on the frump, or make an effort to add some female hormones to your saliva sample
  • Matt88x, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4Dugg for ODB quote.
  • kookbutt, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Nothing a bottle of whiskey, a paper bag and a dark room can't handle.
  • Dozernotz, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6So men aren't as picky when they're horny? How do people get grants for this kind of thing?
  • nuentendu, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5Dugg on the sole basis of having 'Ol Dirty Bastard in the headline.
  • limezor2, on 07/20/2008, -4/+9Buried for MrBabySpam.
  • PisoMojado, on 07/21/2008, -2/+0"We known that women can be attracted by these kinds of things."

    You would think that the Telegraph could afford better editors.
  • wolferz, on 07/21/2008, -1/+8FTA: "Fifteen minutes later, the experimenter returned to collect the puzzle from the man, and to take a second saliva sample. Comparison of the saliva tests showed that testosterone levels rapidly increased by an average of 7.8 per cent after the five minute contact with a woman."

    No... the study found that after 5 minutes of conversation with a woman, some of it awkward, *and 15 additional minutes of cool off* the testosterone levels were increased an average of 7.8% over the previous reading.

    FTA: "The men were also asked to rate the attractiveness of the woman in the room, and the results show that the testosterone increase was not influenced by the perceived attractiveness of the women."

    They admit to picking women who are of a similar level of attractiveness and then when the a man's perception of attractiveness is unusually high but his body still releases the same amount of testosterone they never consider the possibility that testosterone is released based more on subconscious or autonomic responses rather than conscious ones... such as perception.

    Next time throw in a young model or ten and a couple 400lb women and see what happens.

    FTA: "The stimulus people were told to engage in friendly conversation in a natural manner, or allow long pauses if the man elected not to talk."

    This is an unnecessary part of the test and again can color the results. The test was to see how much or little appearance had to do with the release of testosterone. I dunno about other guys but when a random woman suddenly takes interest in me and strikes up a conversation I can feel the effects of testosterone (warmth, jitters, increased heart rate) without any need for it being measured... and it doesn't matter how hot or not they are as long as they aren't fugly.

    Also if a man chooses not to pay attention to a woman based on appearance that too could alter the amount of testosterone released. While the test seems to take this into account it does so in a way that might actually cause some men, specifically those with a low self image (geeks/nerds... and this was a college no less.. and the test was being given under the guise of a math based game... come the ***** on) to behave as if they are not interested while doing nothing about men who actually aren't but happen to be polite and decent human beings.

    This test would have been more accurate if they had found another way to get the men who found the woman attractive to pay attention to the woman without her directly interacting with them and while allowing men who did not to ignore them if they chose to.

    FTA: "This idea is supported by evidence that dominance behaviors of men increases their desirability as a date and by research showing that men who exhibit more dominant-like behavior make more frequent successful contact with women. "

    Now why wasn't that study on digg? If it's methodology is sound (unlike this test) then it would explain once and for all why the bad boys get all the girls while the good guys are left picking over "the scraps."

    ------------

    I honestly don't judge women on looks alone and my highest requirements are for personality type and attitude... but if she's fugly then I'm sorry but I just can't get interested. Call me Shallow Hal if you must.
    • NtroP, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3This whole thing is totally unscientific. They missed the the actual truth that this study has proven: SUDOKU raises testosterone in men!

      Dumbasses!
  • solidwhitedevil, on 07/21/2008, -1/+2"I'll ***** anything that moves!"
    • LinkGCN4, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Clothes rip like The Incredible Hulk
      I spit when I talk
      I'll ***** anything that walks
  • restlessmouse, on 07/21/2008, -1/+8Big deal. When I was in my 20's, I would get a hard-on just from riding on the bus.
  • 808ethan, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3We already knew ugly people were coming from somewhere. It didn't take a genius to guess from where.
  • Typhoon2009, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6It's kinda true. I saw this lady at Ikea the other day... average looks, but she had this white dress made of really, really thin fabric. Meaning whenever she leaned forward slightly, I got a bit of a look at her ass and thong. SPROOOING.
  • Tweets, on 07/21/2008, -4/+1Most attractive women won't give you Diggers the time of day.
    • saisumimen, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2I know, only the ugly ones do.

      How IS your sister, by the way? ;p
    • Hangly, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Is there some sort of law that you have to be unattractive or socially inept to use Digg?
    • nafnosseb, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1US diggers the time of day
  • tdrusk, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1This was a very interesting read.

    Digg
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