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Dating's racial landscape; and write your way to health

(Wesley Bedrosian for the Boston Globe)
By Kevin Lewis
November 9, 2008

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Red hot SOME QUICK ADVICE: if you want to be sexy, try red. In multiple experiments on college students, psychologists found that red has a strong influence on sexual attraction. Men were more attracted to pictures of women with red backgrounds or red shirts and were even willing to spend more money on the women. Men were unaware of this ... (Full article: 610 words)

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