Men can no longer use 'beer goggles' as an excuse for regretted conquests, scientists claim the effect does not exist.

A study to test the effect even found that drinking alcohol made men find women as less attractive.

Researchers from the University of Leicester got 240 men - half who had been drinking - to view digitally-altered images of females.

Their comments on age and attractiveness found that the alcohol made no difference to the perception of age but did make them find women less attractive.

So next time your mate tells you how he went to bed with a supermodel but woke up next to a minger, remind him he thought she looked even worse the night before.