In today’s 3pm Intro to Psychology course, we had a spirited discussion of evolutionary psychology, and how women’s behavior is affected by their menstrual phase. By coincidence, the excellent Mind Hacks blog had a posting about how fertility affected the tips given by male patrons of strippers! It’s a small-N study, but interesting nevertheless. Perhaps a basis for a more ambitious study of stripper tips and hormonal cycles.
Mind Hacks: Strippers’ earning potential affected by hormone cycle:
lap dancers in their most fertile phase of the menstrual cycle earned much more than dancers in the least fertile phase. In contrast, dancers who took the contraceptive pill, which ‘flattens’ the hormone cycle, earned much the same throughout the month.
This adds to the increasing evidence that women’s sexual behaviour changes during their monthly cycle, and that the external signs of this change are picked up by males.
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