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| December 22nd, 2011 at 11:49:07 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6776 |
Maybe this is just an urban legend, but I heard or read somewhere that strippers make the most money when they are in their most fertile point in their ovulation cycle. The theory being that men somehow sense/smell this and shower them with more money. Doc? It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| December 23rd, 2011 at 3:52:27 AM permalink | |
| FinsRule Member since: Dec 23, 2009 Threads: 52 Posts: 775 |
I believe that was in the book Freakonomics |
| December 23rd, 2011 at 4:36:55 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 153 Posts: 2911 |
I'd have no problem getting one. Actually gave it a very cursory look, found some if not many urologists refuse to perform the procedure on younger guys (which I no longer am.) Also wondered about the "it didn't take" thing. Not sure if that is real or a soap-opera invention. I have heard there is a reversable procedure and an irreversible one. I do know one guy who had one and had another kid with a second wife after. "The Roman Empire wasn't planned, but neither did it 'just happen.'" |
| December 23rd, 2011 at 4:52:38 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 153 Posts: 2911 |
Perhaps the right one will come along, or maybe I missed her already, and change my interest in being in a relationship-something I have given up on as I stated. But the kid thing, that would be some woman. It isn't that I never wanted to have them, it is that always DIDN'T want to have any. Some people can't wait; some accept whatever happens; some like you change their mind with the right person. I seriously can't see it with me as I have one of those all-on-logic/very unemotional personality types. I am one of the people eHarmony.com told to go elsewhere as they could not match me.
This I totally buy. Phermones are way more powerful than people understand. Not just in physical attraction, either. I was at a sales management training one time and the guy said if you wouldn't buy the product, people will key in on the phermone you are giving off and not trust you and probably not buy. The salesman will never know why this is happening. I do remember nights when I went on the prowl with an "I don't care" attitude women would come to me far more often than a "night on a mission." Back in my termite and pest control days they told us all about phermones in nature, they are powerful stuff there. Humans are part of nature, we just don't follow it manytimes. "The Roman Empire wasn't planned, but neither did it 'just happen.'" |
| December 23rd, 2011 at 6:31:35 AM permalink | |
| Doc Member since: Feb 27, 2010 Threads: 21 Posts: 2819 | Waaaaay out of my field, but I am very skeptical of that theory. If there really is a genuine increase in revenue during that anti-period (and if it is related to the ovulation cycle), I suspect it is more likely due to some kind of resulting changes in the performance that is given than some innate perceptive skill of the customer. I haven't read Freakonomics, so maybe they have an explanation I haven't considered. |
| December 24th, 2011 at 12:23:12 PM permalink | |
| Keyser Member since: Apr 16, 2010 Threads: 19 Posts: 578 |
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313243579677316.html "The females given the contraceptive became overall less appealing to the males than before getting the injection, says Christine Drea, a professor in Duke's evolutionary anthropology department and senior author on the study. The contraceptive erased all the normal information the odor signals conveyed, she says. Though the study would need to be conducted in humans to draw direct conclusions, there are potential parallels to people, Dr. Drea says. Birth control "could be mixing up your own [signals] and others aren't smelling the real you," she says." Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/birth-control-change-human-attraction-study-claims/story?id=8772136 "Men, meanwhile, have been found to be more attracted to women during the time of the month when they are most fertile. One study of exotic dancers published last year suggested that those who were not on the pill would see a rise in their tips around the time they reached peak fertility." |
| December 24th, 2011 at 1:46:28 PM permalink | |
| belleepoque Member since: Dec 9, 2011 Threads: 2 Posts: 17 |
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| December 24th, 2011 at 1:54:33 PM permalink | |
| Doc Member since: Feb 27, 2010 Threads: 21 Posts: 2819 | Keyser, thank you for the additional information. To express my thoughts, I might repeat my entire previous post, but for now just say I'm still very skeptical. Your first quotation refers to research on lemurs, not humans. The same article has a related comment about humans: I read this as supporting my earlier suggestion that ovulation likely leads to changes in the "performance" -- in the case in the article, to wearing "tighter or more revealing clothing." I don't see it as suggesting (human) men are able to sniff out ovulation and would explicitly find that condition to be enough more attractive that they would toke the strippers more. (No, I have no idea how an ovulating stripper changes a performance to get better tokes. If I did, I might try to sell that info to strippers; surely a "natural" performance change could be faked.) |
| December 24th, 2011 at 1:59:55 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6776 | I wonder if maybe the stripper effect is seen because women are just nicer during ovulation. They certainly can be the opposite of nice at other times of the month. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| December 24th, 2011 at 2:05:58 PM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6400 |
An understatement if there ever was one. The thing with women is, you never know what's going to set them off next. When I was young, I read the best women are are on TV and in movies, and in books written by men. Thats because they aren't real, its the authors fantasy of what women should be like, not what they're really like. I'll take the company of men any day, women wear me down, their brains work in a totally different way than ours. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
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