Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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When women are not ovulating, they're more interested in men who are less prototypically hypermasculine.
When they are ovulating, to men who are more prototypically masculine.
And so what'll happen is they start ovulating for the first time in years and years and years and years.
They'll find they're married to somebody to whom they're not as attracted as they thought they were.
It's a disconcerting thing when you want to get pregnant for the first time three or four years into your marriage.
And again, this shouldn't be shocking to anybody.
If you mess with your hormones,
there's going to be a price.
And again, there are all kinds of good reasons to mess with your hormones.
I mean, hormone replacement for postmenopausal women can be a miracle for a lot of people.
Hormone replacement therapy for some men can really change the quality of life in a very positive way.
But the truth is there's no lack of secondary consequences.
Well, yeah, it's the Thomas Sowell quote.
You're playing defense against yourself.
I'm playing defense against my natural melancholy.
Against my natural melancholy.
Which gets in the way of my life.
The truth is melancholics, it's funny because I'm a mad scientist, which means high negative affect.
High negative affect is actually implicated for a lot of people in ruminative sadness, and there's very provocative research about what ruminative sadness looks like physiologically.
You're looking at it.
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