Ovulation Causes Women to Look for Love.....

....in all the hot places.

Study co-author Steven W. Gangestad, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico, said studies he has worked on have shown that women prefer men whose faces, voices, odors and demeanor are deemed masculine. It makes sense then that they should be particularly inclined toward such men when they are ovulating, particularly if their usual partner is something less than a 10 on the stud scale.

Yup, happens to me: during ovulation day after working, feeding the kids, reading bedtime stories, cleaning up, tucking in, listening, praying, and lumping down the stairs and falling into my Aeron chair for two moments of peace I get the primal, genetic urge to stray. Happens every month. I'm a very loose canon--if you know what I mean. Wink. Wink. Yeow!

Just what women are they studying anyway?

...was based on responses from 38 coeds from a large unnamed U.S. university. They were asked to rate their partner's sexual attractiveness and submitted 35 diary-like entries rating the strength of their attractions to men other than their mates and the frequency with which they flirted or otherwise acted out those attractions.

For a second study, Haselton recruited 43 women who similarly rated their partner's sexual attractiveness on a day near ovulation and on a non-fertile day.

Oh yeah, that is a VERY reliable sample to study. Give me a break. This is my favorite part though:

But the researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of New Mexico, also contend that men who are generally less attractive to women tend to guard their ovulating wives with particularly attentive and possessive behavior.

"What is at stake is not just the loss of face or the loss of love," said co-author Martie G. Haselton, an assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at UCLA. "This is about Darwinian prosperity. Males who did not successfully guard their mates are not our ancestors."

Buwahahahaha!

While I think these studies are probably bull dooky--everyone is horny when they are "coeds" and the choices for "more manly" men is much greater due to numbers in college--this is a fun study. Just think, some Darwinian scientist got money for doing this research.

I love America!