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Beautiful women cause impotence in men
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Beautiful girls and women have always enjoyed particular success among the male sex: logically, because it is pleasant to even just look at them, be near them, talk to them. Not long ago, scientists conducted a study to determine the physical reaction of the male body to the presence of a beautiful woman within reach. Scientists from southern Spain, a country famous for its temperamental men, noticed that the emotional state of the stronger sex changes depending on whether there is an attractive girl next to him or not.
The experiment consisted of fifty males aged 18 to 55 being in a small room and having to solve a math problem. There was one objectively beautiful woman in the room with the men who was handing out the task. Before the experiment, the men's cortisol levels, also known as the stress hormone, were measured. Another measurement was taken at the beginning of the experiment, when the woman handed out the questionnaires and tasks, and the next one was taken 10 minutes after she left the room.
Having compared the results, the researchers noticed that with the appearance of a beauty in the field of vision, the level of cortisol increased significantly. Moreover, it increased so much that, apparently, the stress experienced was equal in strength to that which occurs during a parachute jump.
Thus, we can trace the following chain of interaction: the sight of a beautiful woman causes a surge of the hormone cortisol into the blood, cortisol causes significant stress, and stress, in turn, contributes to the decline of male potency, or, more simply, causes impotence.
On the one hand, such hormonal surges cause an unconscious and subconscious desire to communicate or at least meet women with striking external features. On the other hand, the effect is quite unfavorable: surges in cortisol in the blood and its excess negatively affect the body's metabolism and blood sugar levels. In this regard, overly emotional men have a chance of developing hypertension or even impotence just because of communicating with women who are more beautiful than others.
Let's figure it out: why can beautiful women, who are pleasing to the eye and, it would seem, should have a beneficial effect on the male body, actually destroy it, or rather, cause impotence? The main reason for male impotence is a psychological problem, which is caused mainly by a stressful situation. Contrary to the opinions of many, for the body a stressful situation can be associated not only with unpleasant events: the release of adrenaline into the blood when doing extreme sports, of course, causes a pleasant sensation, but for the body it is stress. A similar mechanism is observed when a beautiful woman appears on the horizon: a man has a desire to meet and talk to her, excitement appears, a large dose of cortisol is instantly released into the blood, which is responsible for stress in the body. It turns out that the more beautiful girls a man meets, the more dangerous the situation with his health looks.
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