Testosterone does NOT make you sex-mad – but will still boost your love life

MANLY men are much romanticist but not needfully randier, subject suggests.

A survey recovered that higher levels of the antheral hormone testosterone were linked to greater “courtship effort”.

The hormone gives blokes heavy voices, large muscles and hairy chests, and is typically linked to hot-blooded desire.

But researchers astatine the University of California, Santa Barbara, did not find a nonstop nexus to sex drive.

Instead, they saw azygous men with greater levels enactment much effort into trying to woo imaginable partners.

Testosterone was higher wide successful azygous fellas than coupled ones, suggesting it motivates them to settee down and past hormone levels decrease.

Upturns communal belief

Study writer Dr James Roney said: “Despite a communal content that testosterone regulates fluctuations successful intersexual desire, determination is small nonstop evidence.

“It whitethorn alternatively motivate mating effort done different means, specified arsenic by promoting courtship effort.

“We produced grounds that testosterone fluctuations successful the mean scope whitethorn foretell changes successful mate attraction efforts among azygous men, particularly fixed societal interactions with imaginable mates.”

It could motivate romancers to ace jokes, wage compliments oregon bargain flowers.

The study, successful the diary Proceedings of the Royal Society B, included 41 men aged betwixt 18 and 26.

They took regular saliva samples and answered questions astir their enactment thrust and flirting efforts for a month.

Testosterone boost helps find a partner

Dr Roney added: “These results fundamentally suggest that elevated testosterone functions to beforehand mate contention efforts successful azygous men.

“Relationship introduction arsenic a effect of these efforts whitethorn successful crook pb to little testosterone accumulation with a displacement successful effort distant from courtship.”

All the men successful the survey had variations of steadfast levels of testosterone, and abnormally debased amounts are known to interaction enactment drive.