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Is Hormonal Birth Control Associated With Male Preferences?
Researchers have been looking at the effects of women's ovarian hormones on their partner preferences for about 20 to 30 years. Women who are on hormonal birth control prefer a less masculinized male face, relative to what's preferred by the exact same women when they are naturally cycling. There is some evidence that is consistent with this. The men were seen as being less masculine and also scored lower in terms of masculinity using the objective measuresrelative to the faces of men who were chosen by naturally cycling women.