Men Find Women More Attractive When They’re At Their Most Fertile
The hormonal shifts cause facial and vocal changes in women are at their most alluring near ovulation, when they are most fertile.
The research, published in the journal Hormones and Behaviour, is the largest study to examine whether how attractive a woman seems changes over the course of her menstrual cycle.
More than 200 photographs were taken of women’s faces at two separate points in their cycle in the study by three universities. Their speaking voice was also recorded at both times and their hormone levels taken.
Five hundred men were asked to rate the pictures and voice samples and it was found women were at their most appealing when their progesterone was low and oestrogen levels were high.
Assistant professor David Puts, and the study’s lead author, told the said, ‘The only time in the cycle when estradiol (oestrogen) levels are high and progesterone levels are simultaneously low is the late follicular phase, near ovulation when fertility is highest.’
A group of more than 500 women were also asked to rate the photographs based on flirtatiousness and attractiveness to men and the subjects scored higher when they were most fertile.
He said, “We learned beyond a reasonable doubt that women’s faces and voices change over the menstrual cycle, and that both men and women perceive this as changes in attractiveness.”
He said the difference could be caused by blood flow changes that affect facial colour, changes to acne or puffiness caused by water retention.
He added that it has been an advantage to our ancestors because women were able to
Nathan Pipitone, a psychologist said, “This paper establishes conclusive evidence for how men and women rate other women as a function of their hormonal status.”
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