Can staring at a woman’s boobs increase a man’s life expectancy? Sure if his wife’s not around. Sorry, loaded question. Let me rephrase. A German study has been floating around the internet claiming this to be so. In a study of 500 men, half were asked to stare at the breasts of women over a five year period while the other half were to avoid this behaviour. The findings were supposedly published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings claimed that engaging in this activity can extend the average man’s life four to five years. Researchers claimed staring at breasts causes sexual excitement and in turn gets the heart pumping and blood circulating. So does being confronted by a rather mean giant grizzly in the woods but you don’t hear of hoards of men flocking to Yosemite to get their blood pumping to extend their lives do you? Anyways, it appears the study was all a hoax.
There are more red flags in this study than in all of China. To begin with the men had to be asked to stare at boobs? Come on. And the half of the study told not to stare at breasts for five years? Why not just remove their will to live. Asking a man to not stare at a woman’s breast is like asking a man to place the toilet seat down; or replace the roll of toilet paper; or to ask for directions. It does not compute. That’s why man invented the gps and why we have a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue; Mardi Gras and Victoria Secret. Maslow just left this off of his hierarchy of needs; hunger; thirst; boobs.
So in honour of International Women’s Day I do declare this study to be null and void.
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