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'''Gait''' is a person's manner of walking. How attractive a person's gait is depends on many important factors such as leg, feet, and spine bone straightness, generally/sexually attractive armpit odor, technique, shoulder width, forearm length, torso length, height, upright posture, physical strength, emotional state, intentions, and rhythm. Women more than men discriminate between strong and weak walkers when assessing attractiveness of male gait | '''Gait''' is a person's manner of walking. How attractive a person's gait is depends on many important factors such as leg, feet, and spine bone straightness, generally/sexually attractive armpit odor, technique, shoulder width, forearm length, torso length, height, upright posture, physical strength, emotional state, intentions, and rhythm. Women more than men discriminate between strong and weak walkers when assessing attractiveness of male gait. Though this varies by culture, with men and women of the Maasai, in northern Tanzania, in Africa, rating the gaits of strong men less attractive than those of weak men, wilst women but not men in Britain rate the gaits of strong men as more attractive than those of weak men.<ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0803</ref><ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01427/full</ref> Altering of the human [[femoid|female]] gait through use of high heels is also likely a female sexual strategy,<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875/full</ref> that enhances attractiveness through imitation of a lordotic (swayback) mating posture, found also in female lower primates.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0123-7</ref> Indeed, in a light-point biomotion study, for all female walkers, the attractiveness scores were higher in the heels condition than in the flat condition.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513812001225?casa_token=1QwnBn9wtAIAAAAA:bZWNE-5wRWRvFGp-QEssPP6jozt4S7sdZ6W6K0KELb8jmGb5QNMKj_x15ii6PxRV-Bj2SerJrg</ref> The same posing of the arched spine also makes [[twerk]]ing a particularly sexually provocative dance. | ||
==Gait technique== | ==Gait technique== | ||