What Your Fingers Reveal about Your Sexual Appetites
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| What Your Fingers Reveal about Your Sexual Appetites |
Take a look at your
right hand. Is your ring finger longer than your index finger? If so, you may
be more likely to seek out lots of sex partners, suggests new research from the
U.K.
On the other hand
(pun intended), if both digits are roughly the same length, you may be
genetically pre-programmed to crave one long-term mate.
Here’s why: A
longer ring finger is a sign you were exposed to lots of testosterone in your
mother’s womb. And that T exposure has been tentatively linked to higher rates
of promiscuity, the U.K. researchers say. (There are tons of more weird
links like this one. )
Make no mistake,
though: “Many dozens of factors combine to affect how promiscuous you
are,” says study coauthor Rafael Wlodarski, Ph.D., of the University of Oxford.
Those factors range from your friendships and personality traits to your
culture and environment. Wlodarski says finger length may be able to predict promiscuity
when applied to big groups of people. But at the individual level, it’s just
one of many variables.
While some
mammals—dolphins, lions—like to play the field, others (wolves and gibbons)
prize fidelity. Humans fall somewhere in between, Wlodarski and his colleagues
say. Finger length aside, the big news from their study is that there appears
to be two distinct types of people—or “phenotypes”—when it comes to fooling
around. (Wondering where politicians fit in?
“There seems to be
a group of males and a group of females who are more inclined to ‘stay,’ with a
separate group of males and females being more inclined to ‘stray,’ ” he
explains. Among men, the strayers appear to outnumber the stayers 57 percent to
43 percent. For women, the split is just about reversed.
So the idea that
all men are dogs and all women crave one long-term partner aren’t supported by
the research, Wlodarski suggests. In fact, his findings show that among the
most promiscuous men and women, the ladies tended to act more wantonly than the
guys.
Have fun talking
this one over with your girlfriend tonight.
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