Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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The reason is because we've broken our brains through the inappropriate use of technology.
That's it.
Yeah, but the birth control pill.
And part of it is sort of the social consequences of the sexual revolution.
There's a lot of Louise Perry stuff.
I'm more interested in the effect of hormonal birth control on how it affects attraction and relationships between men and women.
And there's some very provocative studies that show, for example,
That women who go on hormonal birth control in adolescence and don't go off until after they're married are spontaneously not attracted to the men that they're married to and they go off for the first time.
It changes your taste.
And that makes perfect sense for childbearing.
You know, to get pregnant or to have a nurturer or whatever it happens to be.
Yeah, so when you're not ovulating, you're more- A fake term, alpha male, but more higher testosterone.
When you're more attractive, women, on average, once again, people's results vary.
I was like, dude, yeah, but listen, it made you a lot of money.
It ends my career.
So I was like, whatever.
Yeah, the bell curve, et cetera, et cetera.
So what you find, what are we talking about?
We're talking about the pill.
And pretty interesting studies.
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