Feeling pretty? Hormones may lead women to more partners

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The prettier you are the more men you want!!!

Women with high levels of estrogen not only look and feel prettier -- but they may act on those feelings by moving from man to man, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Estrogen, the so-called female hormone, affects fertility and has been shown to make women dress more provocatively and show more thrill-seeking behavior.

Dr. Kristina Durante of The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues found that young women felt more attractive when they had high levels of an estrogen known as estradiol, and they acted on those feelings.

"Women with higher estradiol reported a greater likelihood of flirting, kissing and having a serious affair with someone other than their primary partner and were marginally more likely to date another man," Durante's team wrote in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters.

"Results provide support for the relationship between physical beauty and fertility and suggest that women high in reproductive health engage in opportunistic serial monogamy -- being open to affairs and moving on to a new relationship if a higher-quality mate becomes available."

Durante's team tested 52 female undergraduates aged 17 to 30 who were not taking hormone contraceptives. They took two estradiol samples from each, as hormone levels fluctuate from week to week.

They had the women rate their own attractiveness and showed their photographs to others to rate, as well.

"High-estradiol women were considered significantly more physically attractive by themselves and others," Durante and colleagues wrote.

The high-estrogen women also reported more sexual behavior -- especially outside of a relationship, although it was not linked to one-night stands.

"Our results are consistent with the possibility that highly fertile women are not easily satisfied by their long-term partners and are especially motivated to become acquainted with other, presumably more desirable, men," they concluded.
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10 comments // Feeling pretty? Hormones may lead women to more partners

  • hydrokat
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    • There seems very little to support most of these conclusions - some of which also seem rather projected.
      There is a wide set of variations for sexually active women.
      Some of the high estrogen females I have seen have been horribly stuck in a particular social habit of frilly clothes and perfume, too much flesh - and a confused sexual interaction.
      Women with moderate estrogen, on the other hand, can be active, healthy, outgoing females - that aren't inhibited in any, peculiarly stark manner.
      Some of those high estrogen gals - boy, what a drag!

    • 1 year ago
  • twohawks
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      twohawks  

    • On the horizon... a sort of 'viagra' for women, but its a drug advertised to "make you feel prettier, attract more sex, last longer in bed and enjoy it more"... (and what woman does not want to feel prettier, if not gain these other espoused benefits?).

      Once again, its all about the pharm-chem industry making more money, isn't it? You thought they started making a killing with viagra, just wait till this becomes the basis for a new drug! Look out men ...there's a new ride coming to town...

    • 1 year ago
  • barnabasnagy
  • ClareW
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      ClareW  

    • That damn estrogen, it's good for nothing! there is a nice symmetry to the pretty thing though, it makes sense.

    • 1 year ago
  • barnabasnagy
  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  

    • Does this mean that on the days I feel like wearing a dress, my estrogen levels are up, and on days I feel like wearing dirty jeans and a hoodie that's been on my floor for three days, my estrogen levels are down?

    • 1 year ago
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