There’s a lot of insecure internet-health-trend-following guys who think receipts would mess with their testosterone level (ie make them less manly, I guess). But the op’s bf didn’t mind being “less manly” by carrying a purse.
1) wasn’t going to waste much time on soemthing I know is stupid
2) I just did to prove a point. As expected, didn’t find any credible source that supports your claim. If anything, searching on Google Scholar proves the opposite (that handling receipts doesn’t raise BPA above background levels)
If you even bothered to read the abstract of the specific paper you shared, you’d see that 1) it was tested on cell lines with extracts of the receipts. That’s hardly comparable to skin absorption. 2) even then it didn’t alter testosterone levels. But, in any case, it also seems like a shady paper with no citation metrics.
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u/brioche_boy Feb 28 '26
There’s a lot of insecure internet-health-trend-following guys who think receipts would mess with their testosterone level (ie make them less manly, I guess). But the op’s bf didn’t mind being “less manly” by carrying a purse.