You may disagree, but men who grow up with lots of sisters are less sexy, says a new study. Researchers have found that having a large number of female siblings makes men no less heterosexual but their body language and mannerisms may be seen as less butch than those who have been brought up in a male-dominated household. They discovered the ratio of male and females within a family growing up together can influence the sexual behaviour, rather than the sexuality, of a boy who is outnumbered.
Genes may determine personality and behaviour but the environment during early life “shapes it”, according to the study. The researchers from the University of Texas experimented with new born rats, separating them into litters either male dominated, female dominated or equally mixed. They found sexual behaviour was influenced more by the male-female ratio of the litter in which they were brought up than the one to which they were born. When it came to mating, the male rats brought up in a litter of mainly sisters, spent less time mating than those brought up among male rats or in an equally divided litter. This was because they were not being invited to do so by the females who signal their availability by wiggling their ears or “dart hopping” — an established rodent come on.
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Watson is petrified to kiss co-stars
London: Actress Emma Watson felt uncomfortable while filming romantic sce-nes with her co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in the new Harry Potter film. Watson who rose to prominence playing wizard kid Hermione Granger, is currently filming the next instalment of the wizard franchise Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1. The star says she gritted her teeth when she was called on to kiss her co-stars, Contactmusic reported. The film is set to hit cinemas in November and features romantic scenes between Watson and both her co-stars.
“Getting into character to kiss Dan and Rupert was tough. Forgetting all of our history, and our relationship. Putting all that aside and being in character was pretty hard, it really was. That required a huge amount of professionalism.” “I really had to grit my teeth and be like, ‘I am Hermione, this is Harry — stop thinking that it’s Emma kissing Dan. It’s not,” said the 20-year-old.
—PTI