Can't buy me love
I guess this explains all those handsome prince guys in the fairy tales.
It wasn't so much the handsome
part or the princely behaviour but the size of his castle tower, if you get my drift and I know you do:
Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance.
They found that the wealthier a man is, the more frequently his partner has orgasms.
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” said Dr Thomas Pollet, the Newcastle University psychologist behind the research.
He believes the phenomenon is an “evolutionary adaptation” that is hard-wired into women, driving them to select men on the basis of their perceived quality.
The study is certain to prove controversial, suggesting that women are inherently programmed to be gold-diggers.
However, it fits into a wider body of research known as evolutionary psychology which suggests that both men and women are genetically predisposed to ruthlessly exploit each other to achieve the best chances of survival for their genes.
I could say something about the prince's charger but I think have said quite enough.
Of course, the whole thing makes sense, sort of. Used to be, a girl would go for the guy who could best fend off the enemy tribe marauders and the man-eating predators and who could also most easily slay the nightly dinner.
Money is the new muscle. Bucks are the new brawn. Wallets are the new wi ...
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Mmm, yeah, this completely does NOT apply in real life to anyone I know.
I mean, maybe it correlates like when the kids grow up and move out and you can relax and not worry about someone barging through the door, and that just happens to be when you have more money because you are finished raising kids---
Nope, I think it's just ridiculous.
Posted by: Aurelia | January 19, 2009 at 12:43 AM
I don't know if this really does translate into reality. Plenty of poor folk out there are still getting their rocks off.
However, it does make perfect biological sense. Though we don't have the same conditions to live in our bodies still respond in ways they evolved to. One of those ways is to have fewer babies when times are lean. Orgasm makes women more likely to conceive it would stand to reason, therefore, that the more comfortable, well fed and sustained a woman is the more likely she is to orgasm And psychologically when you aren't worrying about where your next meal is coming from you can relax and enjoy!
Posted by: April Reign | January 19, 2009 at 08:08 AM
Ditto. Complete bunk. "Science" (and I don't consider this sort of study to be scientific at all - hence the quotation marks) needs to catch up with Feminism.
Posted by: sooey | January 19, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Nah. I don't believe it.
If I did, I wouldn't have been multiple-orgasmic with the ex, who never earned more than half what I did.
Posted by: ...pat. | January 19, 2009 at 09:11 AM
What a ridiculous study!
Women and men who are wealthier are healthier - studies over decades have proven this. Greater health suggests greater capacity for good, healthy sex.
Posted by: Chrystal Ocean | January 19, 2009 at 12:04 PM
From the other side . . . . . .
OMG
To say "Sooey Sweetie AND Pat Pet"
YOU'RE BOTH RIGHT
ON THE SAME POST ....
There are so many questions here. The big mystery is the female orgasm itself. 'Nuff said there.
I have a good friend, now divorced, who was able to really put his now-ex through it, as it were, while she was making more money than him, but once he fully realised his earning potential, they stopped, and that's a big reason she's now his "ex".
And what about those older, more affluent women, who travel to the Third World on trips .... well, you know.
There are other factors too . . . .
Posted by: The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs | January 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Oh dear. We've both been unemployed these past few months, but now I'm about to start a new job. Bye-bye orgasms.
Posted by: Marion | January 19, 2009 at 05:04 PM
How is a man with lots of money necessarily more reliable than a man who knows how to make just enough money to live independently? Money isn't even an indicator of security.
Character is reliable. I would argue that intelligent women choose men of character for partners.
Rich women may feel the need to marry rich men, but that's just the cultural box they live in - it has nothing to do with being female per se.
Posted by: sooey | January 19, 2009 at 06:48 PM