# @science on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-29T01:00:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

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The deep timbre of a male voice may sound attractive, but low-voiced men actually tend to have lower sperm counts, a 2012 study said.⁠
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Multiple studies have found that women usually favor masculine features, such as prominent jaws, high muscle mass, and low-pitched voices.⁠
The theory is that these traits signal a high-quality mate—for instance, it's been proposed that masculine men generally have more robust amounts of sperm.⁠
But the research revealed that, while deep voices are attractive to women, low-pitched men actually tended to have lower concentrations of sperm in their ejaculate.⁠
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The finding suggests that men who evolutionarily invest most of their energy into making themselves attractive to females may suffer deficiencies in other areas—in this case, sperm counts.⁠
For instance, the male hormone testosterone—which lowers voice pitch—can thwart sperm production, according to study leader Leigh Simmons, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia.⁠
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