Does ovulation affect your choice of clothing?

I'm fascinated by some new research which shows that women buy more daring clothes when they are ovulating and imagined it must be to make themselves look and feel more attractive to men. Apparently, the researchers found that outdoing other women was the key factor rather than a simple desire to impress the opposite sex.

The women who chose the more daring clothes were not only ovulating, but had also been shown photos of attractive local women. Apparently the effect wasn't the same when they were shown pictures of less attractive women, or those who lived thousands of miles away, and in these cases they didn't opt for the daring outfits.

The research was carried out by a team at the Carlson School of Management in Minnesota and published in the Journal of Consumer Research - you can read more at www.csom.umn.edu

High-pitched voices mark ovulation

Well, here's a novel way of testing whether you're ovulating - check the pitch of your voice... New research has found that a woman's voice gets higher when she is closer to ovulation.

A team at the University of California monitored and recorded women's voices at different times during their menstrual cycle. They found that the pitch rose when a woman was close to ovulation, and was significantly lower during less fertile times of the month.

The research is published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters, and you can read more about it on the Royal Society website