LettersFromTatyana
Pessimistic Pollyanna
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[Dr. Puts] and his team recruited 70 couples and asked the women how they rated their men’s masculinity and attractiveness, and how often and when they orgasmed. They also asked independent observers to rate the men’s faces, and found broad agreement with the ratings from partners.
As they predicted, women whose menfolk had attractive, masculine faces orgasmed more often during intercourse. . . . The extra orgasms also came at the same time as the man’s climax—just when they would do the most good for conception.
The details are in the last three paragraphs of this article:
http://www.economist.com/node/18925759?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/facingthetruth
Given the hand wringing in these parts about how authentic we should make our characters, we should now all feel free to give our gorgeous heros extra-awesome skills in the sack, and us romance writers should feel good about making unprotected sex with hotties lead to pregnancy.

For the record, I haven't read the study. Given the sample size and the topic I'm a bit skeptical, but it seemed too good to pass up posting.
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