Show us less than half of what you got, ladies!
Woman #1: “…And then Ronald said, ‘You aren’t going out in that. I believe I see at least forty-eight percent of your skin in that dress! They’ll think you’re some kind of trollop! Change at once!’”
Woman #2: “So you put on that instead?”
Woman #1: “It still shows off a good 30 percent of me.”
Woman #2: “Tell it to the friar, Sister.”
A new study out of England finds out just how much flesh women should be revealing in order to optimize … ehrm, I guess to optimize guys hitting on them. Researchers observed men approaching women in nightclubs in the city of Leeds and counted the number of approaches per woman relative to how much skin was showing.
The researchers then tabulated, perhaps on one of those room-sized computers with spinning reels, that women who bare forty percent of their bodies have the greatest success attracting men, twice as much as the dames who get wild after a mojito and roll down their turtleneck a bit. And the forty-percenters apparently have more success even than those women who wear less clothing, as these are considered to be the unfaithful type. A matter of great concern, presumably, to all those men who come to clubs looking for wives amongst the tubetop set.
Important to note that the forty-percenters who were most successful at luring males combined that magic ratio with, in the words of the Telegraph, “tight clothing and provocative dancing.” Proving that proper mating behaviors are still as important as the plumage.
So ladies: get out your slide rules when deciding on that strapless bra, cause we men are thinking with our little accountants!
While the study is a bit frivolous, it does prove that science is still a guy’s world: notice there was no similar research on males, perhaps because no man — no man! — wants to be told that keeping your hand down your pants 40 percent of the time will repel a woman.
Nov 18th, 2009 2:33am
