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Being hungry affects women’s arousal, says a new study

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Burger or sex? We know what we’re choosing. (Picture: Getty Images)

Finally, an answer to the food vs sex debate.

A new study suggests that food can have a major impact on women’s arousal. And not just oysters.

Alice Ely, a researcher from the University of California, San Diego, suggests that hunger affects how women respond to romance and arousal, finding that when female participants were hungry, they weren’t as responsive to romantic stimuli.

So less ‘horngry’, more ‘hangry’.

Ely and her team of researchers gathered 20 women for the study, half of whom had previously tried to lose weight, and half who had never dieted.

The women fasted for eight hours and came into the lab feeling pretty hungry. They were then sent into an MRI scanner… Read the full story


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