Use Your Testosterone Before Children Take It Away From You

“Men take note: If you want women to remember, speak to them in a low pitch voice. Then, depending on what they remember about you, they may or may not rate you as a potential mate. That’s according to a new study by David Smith and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Their work shows for the first time that a low masculine voice is important for both mate choice and the accuracy of women’s memory.”
 — But that is not the only news on the maleness front this morning! Once you get the girl and settle down, watch out: “Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the boy or girl on his knee, reading ‘Goodnight Moon’ for the umpteenth time — the lower his testosterone drops.” Some dude who teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard worries that “’American males have been brainwashed’ to believe lower testosterone means that ‘maybe you’re a wimp, that it’s because you’re not really a man,’” which is pretty much really the only conclusion you can draw from this study.