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Bad Boys, Bad Boys whatchu gonna do when Ovaries delude themselves over you

16/5/2012

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Science. I like it (if this were a speech I’d put the note ‘pause for applause’ right here). I want science to have so much funding that laboratories can have rooms reminiscent of Scrooge McDuck’s money vault for scientists to take metallicky dips into during their breaks. It would mean more experiments could be conducted on the benefits of coffee and red wine consumption. It might speed up cures for various diseases and conditions. It might mean scientists could take the time to monitor how the results of their hard work are interpreted by journalists so we don’t have to see headlines such as “Is it Mr Wrong or Mr Right? A woman's hormones may make her delude herself over 'bad boys'.” If they can tear themselves away from swimming in the pool of money that is. 

According to the Daily Mail this month if we ladies (and I use that term loosely) aren’t addicted to the morning after pill we’re repeatedly down the clinic getting the contents of our womb flushed out. Why? Because women are ruled by their hormones and menstrual cycles which make us stupiderer and gives us a penchant for the cad over an “average-looking but successful accountant.”

Dr. Kristina Durante of the University of Texas said: “While women do not realise it, the hormones associated with fertility lead them to delude themselves about sexy, bad boys.”

Ladies! When will you learn to settle? Cads, why can’t you be good fathers?

The study recorded women’s reactions to certain types of men during both high and low levels of their fertility.

When I think of how this experiment was conducted I like the idea of, oh say, 20 men walking in to an awkward, overly orchestrated scientific soiree full of women.  10 of the men would be in biker jackets with a practised swagger and the rest in woollen tank tops and cords.

What actually happened is that Dr. Durante created fictitious online dating profiles. One account featured a “handsome, charismatic skier” and the other an “average-looking but successful accountant.” Young women were then asked which man seemed like father material. “Under the hormonal influence of ovulation, women delude themselves into thinking that the sexy bad boys will become devoted partners and better dads.”

Does this experiment sound a little familiar to you? Apparently this is because, according to Durante: “Previous research has shown in the week near ovulation women become attracted to sexy, rebellious and handsome men like George Clooney or James Bond.”

However research such as the study into hormones and desire at Florida State University was more concerned with the signs a woman might display when ovulating, “women aren’t showing off swellings, yowling or spraying” rather than who her chosen partner might be and why. 

Durante is more interested in the continued pursuit of ‘Mr. Wrong’: “until now it was unclear why women would ever think it’s wise to pursue long-term relationships with these kinds of men”. Durante found that women who were near ovulation thought that the ‘sexy man’ would contribute more towards domestic duties. It seems that Science is telling me average-looking but successful accountants are much more reliable on the domestic duty side. I had no idea.

If you’re concerned the man sitting beside you, harrumphing over the morning papers is Mr. Wrong and your hormones tricked you then Dr Sari van Anders has some cynical words of comfort for you and your ‘ovulation goggles’: “These lab studies have never, to my knowledge, been extended into actual partner choice, If ovulation affects real-life mate choice so strongly outside the lab, why haven’t we seen these results?”

I think until you start showing off any swellings, yowling or spraying you can rest assured any delusions ovulation might give you just make life that bit more enjoyable. So thank-you science. And thank-you hormones.

Squeamish Kate
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Nic
16/5/2012 06:39:15 am

That was more a case of Mr. 'Possibly interesting maybe entertaining' Vs. Mr. "I work with numbers" which does sound a little dull. Good waste of time science. I don't even like skiing but I'd pick the guy who did sports over the guy who counts things who, saying tha,t might ski. Anyway it's all nonsense because I'm Ms.Wrong and I like it.

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Ms. Wrong
16/5/2012 08:28:51 am

It's like science and the Daily Mail never heard of Mr. Right Now

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Squeamish Kate link
16/5/2012 05:27:52 pm

Yeah the skiing thing threw me a little bit. Skiing strikes me as Mr Average looking accountant's holiday plans, non?

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Nic
16/5/2012 10:18:18 pm

I guess no ones ever broken their leg accounting!

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