(submitted by Aqua)

Health - Reuters


By Charnicia E. Huggins

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research findings suggest that the sound of a person's voice may predict his or her level of sexual activity.



Men and women whose voices were given higher ratings in attractiveness reported having more sex partners and were younger at first intercourse than those whose voices were considered less attractive.


"Thus, the sound of an individual's voice can reveal important information to potential mates," study author Dr. Susan M. Hughes of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York told Reuters Health.


In the study, 149 men and women listened to recorded voices of anonymous individuals and rated the voices on a five-point scale, from "very unattractive" to "very attractive." On average, six men and six women rated each voice. Study participants also underwent measurements of their shoulders, waists and hips and some anonymously reported various details about their sexual history.


When the researchers compared voice ratings with sexual histories, they found that men and women whose voices were considered more attractive by opposite sex raters reported younger ages at first sexual intercourse, more sex partners and more sexual affairs than did those with less attractive voices.


Voice attractiveness predicted promiscuity in women better than did their waist-to-hip ratio, Hughes and her colleagues report in the September issue of Evolution and Human Behavior. Among men, however, the shoulder-to-hip ratio was a better predictor of promiscuity.


That said, not all women with attractive voices are promiscuous, but "promiscuous females tend to have more attractive voices," co-author Dr. Gordon G. Gallup Jr., of the University at Albany, State University of New York, told Reuters Health.


Women with the most attractive voices, according to opposite sex raters, tended to have smaller waists relative to their hips, whereas men whose voices were rated as more attractive -- regardless of the sex of the rater -- tended to have broader shoulders and narrower hips.


"Voice is shaped and modified by certain hormones, such as testosterone, and these same hormones also play a role in influencing both sexual drive as well as the sex-specific changes in body shape that occur during puberty," Hughes said. "Therefore, the link between voice, body configuration, and sexual behavior may be due to similar hormonal influences, attractiveness promoting sexual opportunity, or both."


During human evolutionary history, voice may have also played a role in how men and women made reproductive-related decisions, particularly at nighttime, the report indicates.


"The sound of a person's voice could have become an important indicator of other biologically relevant information," Gallup Jr. said.


Other researchers have reported an association between facial attractiveness and sperm quality in men and facial attractiveness and longevity in men and women. That is, men who were judged to be more attractive tended to have a higher number of sperm and more mobile sperm than their less attractive peers. The most attractive men and women were also found to live longer than those considered less attractive.


Thus, the authors write, "voice attractiveness may be an indicator (albeit indirect) of other fitness-related features as well."


As men and women search for Mr. or Ms. Right, the current findings suggest that people should not "combine a 'blind' date with a 'deaf' date," Gallup said.


"Given the importance of voice as a dimension along which important features may vary," he said, men and women should not agree to a blind date without first having at least one telephone conversation.


SOURCE: Evolution and Human Behavior, September 2004.

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I'm so glad to see this story here. One of my closest friends here at school worked his ass off for a couple years on this research. I just kept forgetting to send it in. If anyone wants to read the actual study, lemme know, and I'll dig up the URL. It's very interesting stuff.

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Are you in the mood to be subdued

You see these shackles
Baby I’m your slave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave

Tie me to the bedpost

I like it rough
cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Yes, I would love to read the actual study, please post the URL! Thanks!

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Here ya go... it's an interesting read.
http://www.albany.edu/news/pdf_file...s%20article.pdf

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I see your fantasy... you want to make it a reality

Are you in the mood to be subdued

You see these shackles
Baby I’m your slave
I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave

Tie me to the bedpost

I like it rough
cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

don't ya just love the way you can hear that certain vocie and it makes you all tingly just from one or two words?????

Very interesting study. I'd love to read it.











out loud, of course

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We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

deadly

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

Wish I could attach a sound file, you ladies would drop like flies.LOL

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I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.

I hear your sweet voice calling
out my name
As I stare from a six foot cell
And from beyond I heard the words
Deceptively Yours

Darlin', like my friend M said- your voice could melt the panties off a virgin.

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It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.
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I've never really been turned on by a voice--attracted to one, yes, but never turned on. My southern accent does tend to make guys horny though, hehe

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Denny has a very nice voice.

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I was kinda thinking the same thing would happen if I attached a sound file... except they'd drop holding their sides from laughing so hard.

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Go then, there are other worlds than these

Wishes you could too!


hmmm... very interesting study.... that esplains a lot!

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