Men! The answer is here. No more shall pretty women fleece you for free drinks at the bar and then leave you to go home alone and considerably poorer. Japanese researchers have a pill you can take to stop you being swayed by testosterone and pretty faces – and boobs. Read more…
Text By Kent Sepkowitz for Daily Beast/Newsweek
It turns out that many men, shockingly, don’t have very good judgment—at least around attractive women. But thankfully researchers in Japan are at work on a solution to the problem, and according to a recent report, they may have identified a medication that can blunt the male urge to blindly trust the next pretty face.
The investigators gave minocycline (an antibiotic that’s been around since the early 1970s) or a placebo to 98 young men and then involved them in a simple game. Each man received 1,300 yen (about $13) and was told that he could give as much or as little of the money as he wanted to someone in the next room. And then the men were shown a photo of the mysterious “someone” next door, invariably an attractive young woman. Those receiving the placebo, investigators found, gave the money away…
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