Pin-ups blow men's minds

LOOKING at scantily-clad babes makes blokes see women as tools, not real people with their hopes and desires.

But brain scans reveal that oggling these types of sexy pics switches off the part of their brain involved with empathy and understanding other people.

Heterosexual men were exposed to images of pin-ups while having their brains scanned in the study by boffins at Princeton University.

They were also asked to fill out an questionnaire devised to assess sexual hostility.



Those with the highest hostile sexism scores had reduced acitivity in the 'empathetic' area of the brain.

They also had more activity in the parts of the brain involved in using objects.

The Princeton experts believe this could lead to gender discrimination in the workplace.

So, could these stuning pics of our Page 3 girl Keeley Hazell turn men into sexists?

Hardly.

The study also showed that some of the men had low hostile sexism scores, so it's likely that the high scorers were sexist to start with and that looking the pics simply turned another part of their body on.

And we'd rather men looked at pics of healthy girls with real curves, then stick-thin models with little to put into a bikini.