distinctivecat

Last summer, in The Proceedings of the Royal Society, a journal devoted to the biological sciences, a combine of researchers from Liverpool and Prague presented the results of a study in which they showed side-by-side photographs of women (their faces, in this study) in and out of ovulation. The results of this investigation suggested that the women in the pictures were more attractive to both men and women during ovulation. The authors had no firm idea why, although they cited previous research that showed a tendency of soft tissue (in ears, fingers, and breasts) to be more symmetrical during this period. Apparently such slight but perceptible differences in outward attractiveness led to "increasing frequency of male-initiated encounters."

And I bring this up because why? Well, it's always surprising and puzzling to see how one set of pics can get off-the-chart comments and then the next one from the same SG gets a reception that seems very "hein?" It would be easy to attribute this to the famously short attention span of the distractable target audience. But maybe, too, there's a hidden ovulation factor at work. If so, ambitious SGs with a control-freak side might want to go all Catholic and start counting cycle days prior to staging a big shoot. Something to discuss on one of those SG only forums.