Clare Stephens
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I think you're a ho.
Evie magazine would certainly say I was a ho.
And Elon Musk would say you're a ho.
So that was based on a 2012 study, what Evie magazine was citing.
That's quite a long time ago.
And there was another big study in 2008.
You won't believe it, but there's been studies since.
And you won't believe it, but the studies since have actually showed that that was a complete failure.
nonsense.
Fabrication.
So study in 2019 found no evidence that women using oral contraceptives had weaker preferences for male facial masculinity than did women not using oral contraceptives.
And then in 2025, that was just last year, you may remember, there was a randomized controlled trial that was like a double blind study.
That is the golden standard of
any kind of scientific research.
So it meant that they randomly assigned some women to be on the pill, randomly assigned some women to be on placebo, and then they did this experiment.
No statistically significant effect of oral contraceptives on preferences for facial masculinity.
I know, right?
It's like, oh, sorry, we didn't think about that ethical consideration.
But the fact that an article can be written