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BY GARDY CHACHA
gchacha@standardmedia.co.ke
How many times are men caught ‘inspecting’ what is not theirs? Even personalities like David Beckham, Barack Obama and Nicholas Sarkozy have been snapped doing suspicious neck-turns with a female lass in the vicinity.
Men like King Mswati of Swaziland don’t even have to turn their heads; they get to see ‘ceremoniously’. The roving eyes of a man are known to meander the undulations of the female geography many times.
In fact, a survey of 3,000 Britons conducted by UK’s Kodak Lens Vision Centres shows men check out on average 10 women a day. Correct mathematics starkly displays that men spend 11 days a year ‘undressing’ women with their eyes.
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A new study by researchers at the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow, says there is a ‘healthy’ side to men’s habit of ogling on women of reproductive age: improving the reproductive potential of the man.
The psychologists used pictures of dozens of different faces and discovered that the more women in the study saw pictures of the same man’s face, the more attracted they were to him.
On the flipside, men who took part rated the women as less attractive when they saw them for second and subsequent times.
“The science of reproduction in nature is driven by reproductive potential,” says Dr Richard Muraga of Family Health Options.
“Among many animal species (and humans are scientifically viewed as animals too) males are wired to maximally exploit their reproductive potential so as to realise their reproductive success.”
And what does psychology say?
Dr James Mbugua of Mt Kenya University explains that men were naturally built to ‘yearn’ for many offsprings. Reproduction was used as a means of determining maleness.
He adds that men are visually stimulated and can hit the peak by just seeing.
Dr Muraga says the chain of biochemical pathways that occurs from a man ogling at a woman is proof enough that men’s eyes play a good enough role in reproduction.
The report detailing the researcher’ findings, led by psychology research fellow Anthony Little of the university’s School of Natural Sciences, says: “There is a tendency for males to pursue a large number of partners as they can dramatically increase their reproductive success by mating with multiple females.”
To prevent an imminent pelting from womenfolk, let me say that this is just medical science – I have nothing to do with it.
