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Arousal Brings Out the Creep in Many Dudes

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

We all know that alcohol can make men do stupid things. Now science has proven that boners are even worse for our judgment... 

According to Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, a book by MIT professor Dan Ariely, in a new paperback edition, explores "Why Hot Is Much Hotter Than We Realize." We don't even know what that means, since we all but failed high school science classes. We'll let Professor Ariely explain, via a summation on The Book Outline Wiki page: 

The author and his partner conducted a series of experiments on Berkeley students (no, not those sort of experiments, silly.) Asking them a series of questions-- first, straight; then, after the undergraduates had worked themselves into a state of arousal.

    • The results show that people simply don't realize how different their decision-making is during a state of arousal.  A few representative results
      • Can you imagine having sex with a 60-year-old woman
        • Sober: 7%
        • Aroused: 23%
      • Could you enjoy having sex with someone you hated?
        • Sober: 53%
        • Aroused: 77%
      • Is just kissing frustrating?
        • Sober: 41%
        • Aroused: 69%
      • Would you slip a woman a drug to increase the chance she'd have sex with you?
        • Sober: 5%
        • Aroused: 26%
      • Would you use a condom even if you were afraid that a woman might change her mind while you went to get it?
        • Sober: 86%
        • Aroused: 60%
    • Implications
      • Someone may promise to just say no, but that promise is less likely to hold up during a state of arousal

Via Book Outline Wiki.


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Posted Dec 30 2008, 12:10 PM
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Comments

freemonth said:

So this is why I start out looking at naked women on a beach and end up paying $12.95 for 3 days access to German fetish porn.

December 30, 2008 8:59 PM

motoko said:

ok, so boners cause brain-drain, but the vag is also full of erectile tissue that produces similar effects when ladies are turned on (trust me). So don't ever try to use this one as some kind of boys-will-be-boys excuse for your general asshattery.

December 31, 2008 1:49 AM

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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Hooksexup, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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