Sometimes an article reminds us how our usage of the world is still conditioned by primal processes. A recent study showed that men were more likely to make gambles after having seen erotic pictures.

When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such as a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported. […]

“You have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women. They trigger the same brain area,”  […]

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I am sure the porn industry didn’t need a scientific study to find out about this ;)

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