Fertile women more open to male advances
A new research study suggests that women are more likely to give their phone number to a man they don't know when they are most fertile. Psychologist Nicolas Guéguen of the University of South Brittany and his colleagues report their results in the scientific journal Biological Psychology. From New Scientist:
Guéguen is cautious in his interpretations, but the study seems to offer real-world behavioural support for studies showing that women are most receptive to advances when they are likely to get pregnant.Fertile women more open to corny chat-up lines
Hormones could play a role, as estradiol (a form of oestrogen) and progesterone levels wax and wane during a woman's cycle, and most birth control pills contain progesterone. But Guéguen worries that a woman's relationship status will confound such associations, since single women could be less likely to be on birth control.
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For some reason things like this that point out that we're just simple disgusting animals bums me out. I know that we are and should face it...but I don't know what it is. Depressing.
Another report from the University of Michigan in the last day discussed how much men spend on 'plumage' for lack of a better term, to attract mates, as opposed to women. Cars, houses, boats, etc.
Wouldn't the women not in a committed relationship be the ones most likely on birth control?
By definition, birth control prevents pregnancy in women who don't want to get pregnant.
So I need to build an estrogen sniffer?
Zu agreed, but women in relationships* are also the ones more likely to be having regular sex.
Whereas if you were having occasional sex, the side-effects of the pill might be more of a hassle than condoms.
*I said relationships, not marriage, hoho.
"By definition, birth control prevents pregnancy in women who don't want to get pregnant."
What if, somehow, women in relationships don't want to get pregnant every time they have sex...
Does that mean that if you were really, really rejected once you may have a better chance 2-3 weeks later?
Innocent, nice working of the angles there.
Were you "really, really rejected once", Innocent?
If you need a shoulder bro.
Brigadoon, hah!
Don't get me wrong, unrelated people definitely have lots of sex, with lots of different people. But do they have more sex than related folk?
I'd like to see stats either way, but I can't imagine singles have more sex than couples. Maybe though.
Wait, is this really news? I thought it was already established that a woman's sex drive was influenced (to varying degrees) by their monthly hormonal cycle, which their peak randiness coinciding with their peak in fertility. This has been studied since humans have been interested in sex.
How come all these studies are always, ALWAYS about women and their inability to control their bodies due to hormones? Men have all the same hormones that women have, though in varying degrees, and are just as likely to be subject to their own hormonal "influences". Where are those studies? Why is it always the women who are at the mercy of their chemistry? Hell, even when they do a study about men, they still somehow blame women for the men being the way they are.
Another example of Science discovering what has been common knowledge for generations, probably centuries.
Well ... at least I knew it.
Arkizzle:
... buy a dog, simpler.
I see, I see,so - if I understand this correctly - you people wait until a female is in pre-gravid mode before waylaying her in a narrow trench with the usual stunning stings and grappling in? Sounds intriguing, but don't the larvae tend to hang around if they have time to imprint on you?
Takuan ?
What????
@arkizzle: In general, people who are related should not be having sex. At least not with each other.
@Anonymous: There are plenty of studies on hormones influencing men's behavior, particularly testosterone, to take a perfectly obvious example. But since men's cycles are much less noticeably then women's, they don't have the temporal "that time of the month" quality.
Well, I'm sterile and lesbian, but the two don't always go together.
But Guéguen worries that a woman's relationship status will confound such associations, since single women could be less likely to be on birth control.
I can't even begin to describe how many ways this is a stupid statement, and makes all sorts of erroneous (and irritating) assumptions of its own right off the bat.
I'm also aware that "people I know" is not a valid statistical sample, but of the single women I know, including me, almost everyone is on birth control, and -- surprise! -- sometimes it's for medicinal purposes and (at least in terms of intent) has nothing to do with our sex lives. So. Mr. Guéguen, care to throw that into your analytical blender?
oh heck
For men only:
Here's the deal, when women are ovulating, they want a prizefighter. When they're not, they want a poet. When they're menstruating, they want Haagen-Daz. Adjust accordingly.
teller @ 21 - rotating accordingly would be acceptable
(c.f. "Will Science Trump Politics in Resolving Abortion Debate?", The Island)
Sam, that was an unfortunate choice of word modes I made. Nice catch.
Sammich: Of course, the world is your buffet.
Anonymous@12
You mean to tell me men are not held to being under the influence of testosterone, all the time.. really.
Really?
@12: Men are boring.
Really though, we (women) have intricate cycles every month that have very little to do with the environment. Men, however, are the same most of the time, but when they do change it is normally because of some outside stimuli. For example, they will only manufacture a certain amount of sperm and semen at one time, but if supplies are depleted (presumably by an outside force), production will be "adjusted accordingly."
@Takuan: Use a rubber.
- Long-winded
well, until another freighter is wrecked carrying two million pairs of latex gloves, I guess it's abstinence - or post-nuptial cannibalism again.
Mmm, fresh fetus.
(presumably by an outside force)
The finest parenthetical of the week.
fetuses are a mammalian affectation.
When I mentioned this to my girlfriend, she said "Well, DUH."
She's noticed herself how she and her female friends become, well, hornier when they're at their peak fertility.
When she walks down the street at that time of the month, she said her train of thought is "Wow, he's hot. And he's hot. God, he's gorgeous. Ooh, I'd totally do him..." and so on.
Thanks science, for confirming what women the world over could have told you was true.
Is PMS Mother Natures way of warding off male attention when the female is unlikely to conceive?