What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Catherine Sammon.

She's an evolutionary psychology researcher, professor of psychology at the University of

Redlands and an author. Women can be a mystery, sometimes, even to themselves. Mon culture

is making many proclamations about what women like and why they should like it, but are

these new headlines accurate or even desirable? Expect to learn why women love erotic stories

so much. Whether evolutionary psychology is sexist, why Catherine did a study where people

rated the attractiveness of faces which had gizz on them? Why feminine men are being

pushed in the media but don't feature in dark romance novels? The role of commitment in female

attraction and much more. This is quite hilarious. The study that she's done where men and

women photos of men and women were taken from porn websites and they had to do things

like control for the size of load and the attractiveness of the person and then they split it

up into whether they looked happy, neutral or unhappy to have it on their face is straight

up hilarious. However, I think it does reveal something very interesting actually about the

way that men and women's attraction systems work. The insights around erotic and dark romance

novels is also really really good. So no matter who you're attracted to or whether you're

a man or a woman, this is pretty fascinating. In other news, actually before other news,

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