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Not that I want any babies but masculinity in men may come with a cost: fewer sperm.
NO WAY!! They only studied 54 men.
Article: Measuring Sperm Counts
For the study, Simmons and colleagues recruited 54 heterosexual men and 30 heterosexual women from a college campus.
The team recorded the voices of the male volunteers, then asked the female volunteers to rate the men's voices in terms of attractiveness and masculinity. Not surprisingly, the women rated deep voices as most alluring.
Each male volunteer then collected a semen sample "in the privacy of their own home and returned it to the lab for analysis," Simmons said.
The samples were entered into a computer-assisted sperm-analysis system, or its ability to swim toward its target, the egg—as well as the number of sperm in the semen.
The analysis showed that men with more attractive voices did not have better sperm quality than those with less desirable voices.
In fact, Simmons noted, the sperm from the deep-voiced men were "perfectly motile" and fertile—there were just fewer sperm cells in the ejaculate.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120105-deep-voices-sperm-masculine-men-women-science-health-evolution/
NO WAY!! They only studied 54 men.Article: Measuring Sperm Counts
For the study, Simmons and colleagues recruited 54 heterosexual men and 30 heterosexual women from a college campus.
The team recorded the voices of the male volunteers, then asked the female volunteers to rate the men's voices in terms of attractiveness and masculinity. Not surprisingly, the women rated deep voices as most alluring.
Each male volunteer then collected a semen sample "in the privacy of their own home and returned it to the lab for analysis," Simmons said.
The samples were entered into a computer-assisted sperm-analysis system, or its ability to swim toward its target, the egg—as well as the number of sperm in the semen.
The analysis showed that men with more attractive voices did not have better sperm quality than those with less desirable voices.
In fact, Simmons noted, the sperm from the deep-voiced men were "perfectly motile" and fertile—there were just fewer sperm cells in the ejaculate.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120105-deep-voices-sperm-masculine-men-women-science-health-evolution/
