Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Sexy guys get more love from fertile gals | Synopsis

Sexy guys get more love from fertile gals

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A woman's relationship satisfaction changes as she nears ovulation, when she's most fertile. But whether or not she's more or less happy with her guy depends on his sex appeal. In a new study, heterosexual women who rated their guys as highly sexually desirable felt closer to their partners and more satisfied with their relationships just before ovulation, as compared to their less-fertile days. The opposite was true for women who said their partners were less sexy; they felt less close to their male partners and were more critical of their mate's faults as they approached ovulation. Previous research has shown that the type of man a woman prefers tends to change across her ovulatory cycle, as she becomes more attracted to masculine faces and bodies, and bilateral symmetry, when she's fertile.

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Christina Larson

Overall Sentiment: 0.069382

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0"So we can't say exactly which hormones were responsible or how exactly they change women's behaviors," Larson said. ...
-0.236303"if men were sexually undesirable, these behaviors were likely to be reproductively disadvantageous if they caused their partners to conceive children with other men," Larson said. ...
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Organization: University of California

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