The Mathematics of Seduction

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British newspapers are reporting this week that biological psychologist Colin Hendrie, of the University of Leeds, has just completed a study showing that a woman seeking to entrap a man should bare precisely 40% of her skin. Less and you’re neglected, more and you’re avoided.

Says the Telegraph of the study’s methods:

Four female researchers… discreetly observed women at one of the city’s biggest nightclubs from a balcony above the dance floor. Using tape recorders hidden in their handbags, the researchers took note of what female clubbers were wearing and how many times they were approached by men asking them to dance… each arm accounted for 10 per cent of the body, each leg for 15 per cent and the torso for 50 per cent.

Also of note: Women who not only bared 40% of their skin, but also dressed in tight clothing and danced “provocatively” attracted the most offers to dance. Wait, what? No fucking way!

Other research articles authored by Hendrie include Evidence to Suggest that Nightclubs Function as Human Sexual Display Grounds, published this year to the astonishment of the biological psychology community. He also wrote the groundbreaking 1998 paper Evidence to Suggest that Self-Medication with Alcohol is Not an Effective Treatment For the Control of Depression.