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Women have better gaydar when they're most fertile, horny
By Ray RahmanJune 21st, 2011, 12:00 pmComments (5)
New science suggests that the nearer women are to peak ovulation, the more accurate their gaydar becomes. (Oh, and old science from the same researchers suggests that gaydar is a real thing, in case you were wondering.) This conclusion was put forth after a study, published in Psychology Today, produced the following findings:
1. Women who are approaching peak fertility can better tell whether man is straight or gay just by looking at his face.
2. Women who are approaching peak fertility can't better tell whether a woman is straight or gay just by looking at her face.
3. Women who've "read a story that described a romantic encounter" can better tell whether a man is straight or gay just by looking at his face.
Yeah, that third one was a bit of a curveball, wasn't it? According to the researchers, "those [test subjects] who had read the story, and were thus 'primed with a mating goal,' were 'significantly more accurate than those who were not.'" And, yes, those "primed" women also sucked at identifying straight women from lesbians.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
My totally bogus hypothesis is that when a woman is fertile she needs to find a Sassy Gay Friend to help her out.
Or perhaps its "I'm fertile and this man is not doing me. He's probably gay."
Ha, though among the theories out there to explain the born-gay question is that families with gay children tend to have more kids, as if the extra padding helps with kids growing up.
What episode from the office is this (and season); don't recall seeing this one. I haven't been up to date with this series, and just now am catching up on the obliviously engaged to a gay man joke between them two. Funny stuff what with oscar knowing right away.
Women are never horney. After 68 years I auta know.
Shoot, so that's that one suppseos.
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