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Women seeking to impress men on the dance floor might want to consider strutting their stuff when most fertile. Men shown videos of women dancing and walking were most attracted to their moves when the women were close to ovulation.
Bernhard Fink, at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues filmed 48 female students aged between 19 and 33 while they walked towards and away from a camera or danced to the drum track of a Robbie Williams song. The women walked and danced once during the most fertile part of their reproductive cycle and again during a non-fertile time. The videos were transformed so that only the outline of each woman's body was visible. This was in order to remove all visual cues other than movement.
The researchers showed the video clips to 200 male students, who were asked to rate the women's attractiveness on a seven-point scale. They gave women at their most fertile an average rating of 2.88 in the dancing clips and 3.31 in clips showing them walking. This compared with ratings of 2.72 and 2.98 respectively for clips recorded at non-fertile times.
In 2007 researchers at the University of New Mexico showed that lap dancers earned more in tips when close to ovulation, though they did not study the reasons for changes to the men's largesse (Evolution and Human Behavior, DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.06.002).
Fink speculates that increased attractiveness around ovulation is the result of physiological changes that are mainly related to an increase in oestrogen levels. "Oestrogen has effects on muscular control, skill performance, and on ligaments and tendons, so it's reasonable to conclude that it could affect body movement," he says.
Whether changes to movement have evolved specifically to signal fertility or are just a by-product of physiological changes associated with fertility remains to be seen, Fink adds, but he favours the latter.
"Both men and women have the ability to judge the phase a woman is at in her cycle, and that can provide valuable information," says Gayle Brewer, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.
"For men it allows them to identify potential mates in their fertile phase and to guard existing partners to prevent cuckoldry, while for women it can allow them to identify the most attractive female competition."[/quote]
[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22046-women-dance-most-attractively-when-fertile.html[/url]
I always wondered if that was the case.
[quote]"Both men and women have the ability to judge the phase a woman is at in her cycle, and that can provide valuable information,"[/quote]
yeah so can anything with ears
hmm which phase is she in while im being threatened with divorce because i forgot to empty the dishwasher i wonder
I had a feeling this was the case.
reading this is like reading one of those RTS guides
"considering only strutting your stuff when reaching maximum fertility"
[QUOTE=thisispain;36765282]reading this is like reading one of those RTS guides
"considering only strutting your stuff when reaching maximum fertility"[/QUOTE]
"you must learn additional dance moves"
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[QUOTE=thisispain;36765282]reading this is like reading one of those RTS guides
"considering only strutting your stuff when reaching maximum fertility"[/QUOTE]
Obsessed with video games.
huh..
Well that's interesting albeit useless information.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36767208][IMG]http://img.maxofs2d.net/misc/females_beep_boop.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
close, but I'd save it for when someone actually tries to justify sexism using this study
[editline]14th July 2012[/editline]
nobody's actually used the word "female" as a noun in this thread yet
[editline]14th July 2012[/editline]
well I did then, but I put it in quotes
[QUOTE=DentalDoctor;36766845]Obsessed with video games.[/QUOTE]
On a video game based forum.
[QUOTE=Zeos;36767580]On a video game based forum.[/QUOTE]
Not everything has to relate to video games.
You're play games a little too much if the first thing you're reminded of in this thread is RTS games.
Breakdancing is most attractive when fertile
[QUOTE=Samiam22;36765422]"you must learn additional dance moves"[/QUOTE]
"Not enough agility points"
[QUOTE=Hans-Gunther 3.;36770454]"Not enough agility points"[/QUOTE]
dammit, gotta farm on the low quality poles before moving up to this one
[QUOTE=PowerBall v1;36766746]STOP
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Studies have shown that excessive exposure to studies leads to an increase in anger and frustration among prepubescent males.
[QUOTE=DentalDoctor;36767771]Not everything has to relate to video games.
You're play games a little too much if the first thing you're reminded of in this thread is RTS games.[/QUOTE]
no because it's hilariously verbose and seems to think that dating and dancing at a club requires strategy.
maybe i are play games a little too much, but i blame that on my bipolar disorder causing many sleepless nights.
[QUOTE=Lankist;36764793]yeah so can anything with ears
hmm which phase is she in while im being threatened with divorce because i forgot to empty the dishwasher i wonder[/QUOTE]
That would be menopause.
[QUOTE=xZippy;36764773]I always wondered if that was the case.[/QUOTE]
So whenever you saw a girl dancing you thought "that girl is a great dancer i wonder if she's on her period"?
".. 2.88 in the dancing clips and 3.31 in clips showing them walking. This compared with ratings of 2.72 and 2.98 .."
It gives a difference of 0.16 and 0.33 which considering it's a seven point scale, gives roughly a difference of 2.2% and 4.7%.
Not to say it isn't true, (from a biological point of view it makes sense) but this study doesn't seem that very conclusive.
[QUOTE=Murkat;36781167]So whenever you saw a girl dancing you thought "that girl is a great dancer i wonder if she's on her period"?[/QUOTE]
oh my god you realize there's more than "period" and "not-period" right
I think i remember watching something where men listened to a series of women's voices that were recorded every day for a month, and they thought the voices were most attractive when the women were ovulating. Go figure. I guess it kinda makes sense that women should be more attractive at that time.
Strippers that are ovulating also tend to get more cash. Males smell if a female is fertile, and go apeshit.
[QUOTE=ItsMozy;36783859]Strippers that are ovulating also tend to get more cash. Males smell if a female is fertile, and go apeshit.[/QUOTE]
you are making this sound really gross
[QUOTE=Lankist;36783895]you are making this sound really gross[/QUOTE]
primal
lol in the video they are doing the dance shepard does in mass effect
guys i want to make money how do i ovulate from my testicles
[QUOTE=Lankist;36783895]you are making this sound really gross[/QUOTE]
ew cooties
[QUOTE=geogzm;36788659]guys i want to make money how do i ovulate from my testicles[/QUOTE]
Put needles in them, like this:
[sp]http://discharges.org/h/1205/[/sp]
NSFW, by the way.
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