Women Dress to Conceive

I read this article in the Malay Mail yesterday

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Women dress to conceive
by AFP

PARIS: Women take greater care over their appearance when they are at peak levels of fertility, according to a study reported in New Scientist.

University of California at Los Angeles researchers worked with a group of 30 women aged 18 to 37.

They took two full-body photographs of each volunteer —one when the woman was close to ovulation and highly fertile, and the other at a point of low fertility in the menstrual cycle.

Observers were then asked to decide which of the two photos showed the woman trying to look more attractive.

They chose the woman in her “highfertility photograph nearly 60 per cent of the time more often than would be expected by chance.

“Though not in the same class as the obvious physical cues other primate females give when they are ovulating, it is the first evidence that women openly advertise their fertility,t he British weekly says.

The scientists were intrigued that all the volunteers said they were in a committed relationship.

If so, why would they go to the trouble of dressing up?


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Now I know why I don't feel like dressing up these few days...menstrual coming soon...