Study: Women dress to impress when they are most fertile.

[edbermac]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study they say shows that signs of human ovulation may not be as mysterious as some scientists believe.

A study of young college women showed they frequently wore more fashionable or flashier clothing and jewelry when they were ovulating, as assessed by a panel of men and women looking at their photographs.

"They tend to put on skirts instead of pants, show more skin and generally dress more fashionably," said Martie Haselton, a communication studies and psychology expert at the University of California Los Angeles who led the study.

Writing in the journal Hormones and Behavior, Haselton and colleagues said their findings disproved the conventional wisdom that women are unique among animals in concealing, even from themselves, when they are most fertile.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/10/women.fertile.fashion.reut/index.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well, that makes sense......

The thing I read said that when women are fertile, they are more likely to stray......

And that the type of man they stray toward? Someone who has bigger bones, which are apparently indicative of higher levels of testosterone.

Who knew? The body has its reasons.......

[Deja Q]

3. I have big bones...

Maybe I just need to find the right places to go along with the right times. :crazy:

(also note, I am not taking the obvious and obscene tangent! O8) )

[idgiehkt]

2. our tax money at work

duh, do ya think?

they could have just asked us.

[Deja Q]

5. Where's Masters and Johnson when we need them?

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

4. It's nothing but a popularity contest over at Hormones and Behavior

They're such snobs.

[crim son]

6. Then I must be fertile every freaking day

because I like clothes and I dress up whenever I can.

[calico1]

7. I think I dress pretty well.....

but I am pushing 49. Don't think I am too fertile these days.

[LeftyMom]

8. Eh, I still look like I mugged a homeless person for thier clothes

I'd just wear nicer underwear if I thought anybody'd see 'em.

[Sequoia]

9. I didn't know it was Thanksgiving already!

My turkey is still in the freezer.

[babylonsister]

10. Well that explains THAT! nt