Thursday 15 January 2009

Could your hormones make you more likely to have an affair?

In a paper titled "Oestradiol level and opportunistic mating in women" (yes, really...), researchers have discovered that women with higher levels of the hormone are more likely to have affairs.

We know that oestradiol levels have an effect on your fertility, but this research shows that they are also related to how physically attractive you feel, and how attractive others think you are. Cheerfully for those of us with fertility problems the researchers conclude that "Results provide support for the relationship between physical beauty and fertility"! As if not being able to get pregnant wasn't enough to contend with...

If you can bear to read more, the details from the journal Biology Letters are here

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