Beware These Wiggly Wiles

By DAVID SEXTON

I LOVE evolutionary psychology. You can’t beat its discoveries, especially about sex the hip-waist ratio, the preference for symmetry and all that. Now a Canadian scientist determines that women wiggle as they walk most when they are at the least fertile part of their menstrual cycles and least when at their most.

It seems contrary to sense. Unless, that is, it’s another feminine wile designed to confuse unwanted males from a safe distance? It could just be. “If a woman flaunts herself too openly at fertile times, she could be made pregnant by an unsuitable man, so women may have an evolutionary interest in sending out mixed messages …”, the scientists suggest.

Mixed messages you don’t say? For this relief much thanks, eh, chaps?

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