Parasite makes women hornier

[Kate Thomas]

Malta Star

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=8725

A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex by making them feel and look hornier but it can also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
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Until recently it was thought to be an insignificant disease in healthy people, Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter said, but new research has revealed its mind-altering properties.

"Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men and women,'' Dr Boulter writes in the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine. Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.

"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.

"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''.

[Melissa]

Hmm, I wonder how this would affect a transsexual changing from one sex to the other.

Melissa