A parasite you may already have makes men ugly, women more attractive

Okay folks, brace yourselves: So according to the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine, about 40 percent of the world's population, that's right, almost half of everyone (and 60 million Americans), is infected with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, which can be caught from eating raw or undercooked meat and inadvertently from the common household cat. Though it's largely been ignored by the scientific community due to the fact that for the most part, it's fairly harmless in otherwise healthy individuals, a Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher claims it has some rather fascinating mind-altering properties after all. Says Nicky Boulter:

"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.

On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.

In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens." -Sydney Morning Herald

Could this help explain the men are from Mars women are from Venus syndrome?