
While browsing through a couple of my favorite sites, I ran across an article called "Sexual Politics of Dancing: The Secrets of Looking Good on the Dance Floor". This title was accompanied by a rather geeky looking white guy. What could I do but click on the article?
An illiterate British dancer decided to go back to school in his early twenties, where he studied English and Psychology. Missing dance, quite a bit, he decided to combine the two and *poof* he becomes a expert in the psychology of dance. Peter Lovatt, aka Dr. Dance, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire, has become an expert in what people find attractive in dance. Uh huh... Well, I suppose if you can prove that men are attracted to a certain hip to waist ratio in women, then I suppose you can show that people are attracted to a certain kind of dance.
If you're looking to score some points on the dance floor, here's what I learned in a nutshell, so you don't have to read the whole article.
1. If your ring finger is longer than your index finger, the difference between the two is related to how much testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. Longer ring finger = high testy.
2. Women unconsciously found the men with higher prenatal testosterone levels more attractive than those with lower levels. Complex coordinated big moves = hot. Uncoordinated big moves or small moves = not.
3. Men unconsciously found women with lower levels of prenatal testosterone levels more attractive than those with higher levels. Small movements (esp. w/hips) = hot. Uncoordinated big moves = not.
4. In Men, confidence on the dance floor is key. Men are more confident when they're younger, not so much in the middle age, then are again confident after 60. Men's confidence is tied to women's confidence in middle age. (presumably because women are unhappy and yell at men.)
5. In women: they enjoy dancing innocently until about 15 when they realize it can be tied to sex, then they lack confidence til about 20. They go down again after 35 as they approach menopause and all that crap, but go up again after all of that nonsense is done.
6. Women don't like it small and simple.
7. Relax. Let go and your body should move. (I learned this after copious amounts of alcohol.)
Apparently, you just have to get out there and shake it. Just make sure that your movements are big and complicated if you're a guy, and if you're a girl smaller, sultry hip swaying works wonders. Just make sure you're doing it in time to the beat people. There. You now know how to score on floor. Get out there!





