For Men, Is It ALL About Virility?

I wonder this stuff at least twice a week.

Ted Bauer
5 min readDec 8, 2023

A few days ago, I was minding my own business on my Facebook Marketplace couch when, all of the sudden, YouTube fed me this Chris Williamson video:

I am not, myself, a “soy boy,” although I do believe I am infertile, and thus I think about this stuff a lot.

In that video, they talk about a study whereby you take a man, right? Still with me? You then take 10 women. Two are ovulating, and eight are not. You literally just have the 10 women walk past the man, and said man will be attracted more to the two women ovulating than the other eight, even if the other eight are porn-star-looking supermodels. I actually think this is one of those studies:

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.