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Wed May 1, 2013, 09:35 AM May 2013

Antibiotic Protects Men from Attractive Women


Posted by Alex Berezow at Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:29:34
Heterosexual men mentally melt in the presence of attractive women. As Tom Jacobs writes in Pacific Standard, even the very thought of possibly interacting with a woman is enough to "temporarily impede men's mental abilities."

Of course, women know this, and some use it to their advantage. (Companies also know this, and they use it to their advantage, too: During my years in graduate school, many of the biotech sales reps were unusually attractive women.) Men feel more trusting toward women who cause them to be sexually aroused, even if there is no good justification for it -- just like when Indiana Jones totally fell for that sexy Nazi chick in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Is there a way for men to avoid these devilish "honey traps"? (It's unknown if the "honey trap" is named after CNBC's anchor formerly known as the "Money Honey.&quot

Yes. They can take an antibiotic.
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Antibiotic Protects Men from Attractive Women (Original Post) n2doc May 2013 OP
Being divorced from one helps with immunity a lot Fumesucker May 2013 #1
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