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Article: Have 40 years of the Pill turned women off hunks? Researchers say contraceptive hormones alter female desire.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Byline: David Derbyshire
IT ushered in the 1960s sexual revolution and gave women control over their own fertility.
But the Pill may also have changed women's taste in men, according to a study.
Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in masculine men and make boyish men more attractive. Although the change occurs for just a few days each month, it may have been highly influential since use of the Pill began more than 40 years ago.
If the theory is right, it could partly explain the shifting in tastes from macho 1950s and 1960s stars such as Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to the more wimpy, ...