Stupid Sex Tricks: Think with the big head…

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…because if you let the little one take over, you get Teh Stoopid, fellas:

Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived.

Researchers said it was as if he was so keen to make an impression he ‘temporarily absorbed most of his cognitive resources.’

To see if other men were affected in the same way, they recruited 40 male heterosexual students.

Each one performed a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say, as fast as possible, if each one was the same as the one before last.

The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test.

The results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score.

But when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman.

In a report on their findings the researchers said: ‘We conclude men’s cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman.’

Psychologist Dr George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society, said the findings reflect the fact that men are programmed to think about ways to pass on their genes.

‘When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call ‘reproductively focused’.

‘But a woman also looks for signs of other attributes, such as wealth, youth and kindness. Just the look of the man would be unlikely to have the same effect.’

Plus, if he’s “reproductively focused”, and we can tell, we tend to think he’s kind of a dork, no matter how cute he is.

Meaning, all that “reproductive focus” has gone for naught.

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4 Responses to Stupid Sex Tricks: Think with the big head…

  1. Quoting my wife again, “Sex is God’s little giggle she gave women about men. She gave men a head and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

  2. Yep, that sounds about right.
    It also says something unfortunate about the size of men’s cerebral cortices, especially when you consider the rather modest size of the average erection.

  3. It’s witchcraft!
    “Of considerable concern for [Saint] Augustine was the fact that he and all men could exercise no control over their own penises. Erections might come and go without the man having much to do with it.
    “A heterosexual male, however, was more prone to get an unwilled erection when in the presence of women. Women naturally and unwittingly provoked this physical reaction in the male. The man, in effect, loses full control over himself, and whatever his mental and spiritual aspirations may be, in the presence of sexually attractive females he is reduced to baser thoughts and physical urges.
    “Under these circumstances, his power is effectively usurped by the woman… ”
    (Saint Augustine’s Penis and Original Sin, C.L.C.E. Whitcomb, 1998 http://witcombe.sbc.edu/davincicode/original-sin.html)

  4. Pity Augustine knew nothing about physiology. We’ve been paying the price for things not our fault ever since. Being burned at the stake is an awfully high price for HIS getting involuntary wood.

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