Feeling Pretty? Hormones May Lead To More...

Women with high levels of oestrogen not only look and feel prettier - but they may act on those feelings by moving from man to man, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Oestrogen, the so-called female hormone, affects fertility and has been shown to make women dress more provocatively and show more thrill-seeking behaviour.

Dr. Kristina Durante of The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues found that young women felt more attractive when they had high levels of an oestrogen known as estradiol, and they acted on those feelings.

"Women with higher estradiol reported a greater likelihood of flirting, kissing and having a serious affair with someone other than their primary partner and were marginally more likely to date another man," Durante's team wrote in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters.

"Results provide support for the relationship between physical beauty and fertility and suggest that women high in reproductive health engage in opportunistic serial monogamy - being open to affairs and moving on to a new relationship if a higher-quality mate becomes available."

Durante's team tested 52 female undergraduates aged 17 to 30 who were not taking hormone contraceptives. They took two estradiol samples from each, as hormone levels fluctuate from week to week.

They had the women rate their own attractiveness and showed their photographs to others to rate, as well.

"High-estradiol women were considered significantly more physically attractive by themselves and others," Durante and colleagues wrote.

The high-oestrogen women also reported more sexual behaviour -- especially outside of a relationship, although it was not linked to one-night stands.

"Our results are consistent with the possibility that highly fertile women are not easily satisfied by their long-term partners and are especially motivated to become acquainted with other, presumably more desirable, men," they concluded.

The findings fit in with many other studies showing that hormones influence the behaviour and success of both men and women. Earlier this week, U.S. and British researchers showed that male financial traders whose finger lengths indicate high testosterone levels in the womb made more money.

The Feeling of Being Single in A Large City

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At times, life looks like really bitch to you. It doesn’t really matter what others think of it, what really hurts you is that things are not fine with you. For instance, I have relocated to this new city to join a new company. I've been given every facility I can ask for- an apartment, a car and stuff like that. Despite this, I guess I'm heading nowhere. Reason? I‘m leading a pretty single and lonely life. I ended up my relationship with my girlfriend about five moths back, and I've been feeling a bit low since then. The feeling of loneliness constantly haunts me. Although I have been on couple of blind dates since then, I never thought of seriously getting involved with any one. I had my jobs and my circle of friends with whom I often hanged out in bars and pubs during the evening time, some of my friends were singles like me. So life was not that bad in my home town even when I was single.

This city is huge and beautiful and has lots of things to offer, but I still don't feel like going alone. It really sucks to death being alone in a great city like this. I hardly ever know anyone here to go out with. Maybe, I should check out the potential areas of this city such as bars where singles meet a lot. If I manage to make some new friends here, we can go for trekking or parasailing on weekends. Or may be, I should probably even try for these dating sites I have heard about. Who knows if I will find someone stimulating there, then I won't have to go to a bar alone looking like someone pathetic and preying on every single girl you see there. Then I don't think life will be so dull and boring as it is now.