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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 the straightness of the limbs, | '''Gait''' is a person's manner of walking. How attractive a person's gait is depends on many important factors such the straightness of the limbs, , 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 the attractiveness of male gait. Though this appears to vary by culture, with men and women of the Maasai people of northern Tanzania rating the gaits of strong men less attractive than those of weak men, whilst [[anglo girls|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 the human female gait through high heels is also likely a female sexual strategy that enhances attractiveness through imitation of a [[lordosis|lordotic]] (swayback) mating posture, also found in female lower primates.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875/full</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513812001225?casa_token=1QwnBn9wtAIAAAAA:bZWNE-5wRWRvFGp-QEssPP6jozt4S7sdZ6W6K0KELb8jmGb5QNMKj_x15ii6PxRV-Bj2SerJrg</ref> | Altering the human female gait through high heels is also likely a female sexual strategy that enhances attractiveness through imitation of a [[lordosis|lordotic]] (swayback) mating posture, also found in female lower primates.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875/full</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513812001225?casa_token=1QwnBn9wtAIAAAAA:bZWNE-5wRWRvFGp-QEssPP6jozt4S7sdZ6W6K0KELb8jmGb5QNMKj_x15ii6PxRV-Bj2SerJrg</ref> | ||
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Winning fights increases [[reproductive success]] even when fights are staged, a study done in 2009 investigated the reproductive success of men competing in a traditional ritual fight, Sereer wrestling, the first study of its kind. Involvement in wrestling had a significant positive effect on men’s number of offspring and a marginally significant effect on polygyny, controlling for age, body condition and socio‐economic status. These positive effects suggest that being involved in wrestling competition provides prestige, facilitating access to mates and thereby increasing fecundity. However, when women were interviewed on their preference concerning qualities of potential mates, the quality ‘being involved in wrestling competition’ was poorly ranked. This discrepancy may arise either from deceptive reports or from discordance between parents and daughters in the choice of a husband. Another possible explanation of this discrepancy between female preferences and mating success may be that selection is not acting through female choices, but rather through male–male competition: the prestige acquired by wrestlers may dissuade other men from competing for the same female. <ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01793.x</ref> | Winning fights increases [[reproductive success]] even when fights are staged, a study done in 2009 investigated the reproductive success of men competing in a traditional ritual fight, Sereer wrestling, the first study of its kind. Involvement in wrestling had a significant positive effect on men’s number of offspring and a marginally significant effect on polygyny, controlling for age, body condition and socio‐economic status. These positive effects suggest that being involved in wrestling competition provides prestige, facilitating access to mates and thereby increasing fecundity. However, when women were interviewed on their preference concerning qualities of potential mates, the quality ‘being involved in wrestling competition’ was poorly ranked. This discrepancy may arise either from deceptive reports or from discordance between parents and daughters in the choice of a husband. Another possible explanation of this discrepancy between female preferences and mating success may be that selection is not acting through female choices, but rather through male–male competition: the prestige acquired by wrestlers may dissuade other men from competing for the same female. <ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01793.x</ref> | ||
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A study done in 20011 showed that armpit odor pleasantness was the single attribute that consistently predicted attractiveness of nonverbal behavior.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-011-9803-8</ref> In laymen's terms the better smelling the mans armpits the more attractive, his gait, as well as any other nonverbal movement, and armpit smell is the most important factor of nonverbal attractiveness. One study found [[fashion|pine]] is an objectively, generally attractive smell. 3 studies found [[Pretty Boy|the smell of flowers]] to be sexually attractive to women. | A study done in 20011 showed that armpit odor pleasantness was the single attribute that consistently predicted attractiveness of nonverbal behavior.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-011-9803-8</ref> In laymen's terms the better smelling the mans armpits the more attractive, his gait, as well as any other nonverbal movement, and armpit smell is the most important factor of nonverbal attractiveness. One study found [[fashion|pine]] is an objectively, generally attractive smell. 3 studies found [[Pretty Boy|the smell of flowers]] to be sexually attractive to women.--> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||