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" &amp;quot;Researchers have found that lap dancers \u2014 women who work in strip joints and, for cash, gyrate in the laps of seated men \u2014 earn more when they are in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle,&amp;quot; reports ScienceNow Daily News. Geoffrey Miller, a New Mexico evolutionary psychologist, recruited 18 lap dancers to participate in a study about concealed ovulation \u2014 the apparent absence in humans of any external indications of fertility. The theory is this: Unlike, for example, the noble bonobo, whose genitalia swell most extravagantly when she is in estrus, human females make no such show during ovulation. Or do we? (Or did I just want an excuse to say &amp;quot;noble bonobo&amp;quot;? Because I am definitely pro-noble bonobo.) Miller and his team asked the dancers to track their work hours, income, and menstrual cycles, eventually recording data for more than 5,000 lap dances. Of the women who had normal cycles, earnings were lowest during menstruation, when their chance of conception was lowest, then almost doubled during their periods of high fertility. Study participants who were taking birth control pills, and therefore had no such cyclical peaks and valleys, earned less overall. The study seems to indicate that there are &amp;quot;subtle behavioral signals,&amp;quot; say the authors, that women give off when they&amp;#039;re most fertile. The authors don&amp;#039;t believe that these signals are conveyed by the kind of dance moves \u2014 a careful euphemism if I ever heard one \u2014 or the &amp;quot;conversational content&amp;quot; between the dancers and their patrons. (&amp;quot;So, what do you like to do for fun?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[Panting.] Get lap dances. You?&amp;quot;) This finding supports earlier work suggesting that you can detect ovulation by observing the way women walk and dance. It&amp;#039;s thought that high levels of estrogen influence the way we move \u2014 and in this case how much money we earn. This is all very interesting from an academic standpoint, but it also has useful applications for those of us with fertility issues. First, if you are an infertile lap dancer, you might as well quit your job immediately. You&amp;#039;re never going to make enough money to afford your next cycle that way. But there is good news, too: Once you are in the middle of a cycle, maybe you could put that skyrocketing estrogen to good use before your hCG trigger. Put on your spike heels, trip on down to your local gentlemen&amp;#039;s club, cover those injection welts with a nice concealer, and make a new friend or two. Positive or negative \u2014 twins or vodka bender \u2014 the money will come in handy. That is, of course, if you can stuff your bloated ass into that sequined g-string. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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