Why Some Men Are Just Born to Seduce
Some men are natural seducers. Others are born blunderers. Why? Science has figured it out. Well, to be fair, science has figured it out for fruit flies, but the researchers from Stanford University are fairly confident the results apply to human beings, too. When it comes to attracting the ladies, a man's success or failure on that first date could be due to his brain structure, report Reuters and Australia's Herald Sun. Researchers have even given it a name: the brain's courtship circuit.
When the courtship circuit works properly, a man seduces a woman according to a strict order of events, such as beginning with a romantic music, a charming dinner out, and then perhaps a tentative arm placed gingerly around her waist. All this must happen before either of them get too serious emotionally or physically. If it doesn't, then the male becomes that classic fumbler, who gets far too serious too soon and never gets the girl.
Remember the fruit flies that started all this? They normally go through a complex ritual of five critical steps to attract a mate. But when the Stanford scientists, led by Bruce Baker, interfered with the male fruit fly's 60 courtship circuit cells, he skipped the initial courting steps so critical to successful fruit fly unions and tried to do everything at one time. The end result: He failed to mate.
"So what normally takes a total of four minutes is reduced to just 10 seconds, and that doesn't work very well," Baker explained to Australia's Herald Sun, noting that the fruit fly's basic cellular functions are very similar to those of humans (in case you wondered). "It wouldn't surprise me to learn that human sexual behaviors also have underneath them a basic circuitry in the nervous system that mediates attractions and mating," he told Reuters. The study findings were reported in the journal Nature.
Some men are natural seducers. Others are born blunderers. Why? Science has figured it out. Well, to be fair, science has figured it out for fruit flies, but the researchers from Stanford University are fairly confident the results apply to human beings, too. When it comes to attracting the ladies, a man's success or failure on that first date could be due to his brain structure, report Reuters and Australia's Herald Sun. Researchers have even given it a name: the brain's courtship circuit.
When the courtship circuit works properly, a man seduces a woman according to a strict order of events, such as beginning with a romantic music, a charming dinner out, and then perhaps a tentative arm placed gingerly around her waist. All this must happen before either of them get too serious emotionally or physically. If it doesn't, then the male becomes that classic fumbler, who gets far too serious too soon and never gets the girl.
Remember the fruit flies that started all this? They normally go through a complex ritual of five critical steps to attract a mate. But when the Stanford scientists, led by Bruce Baker, interfered with the male fruit fly's 60 courtship circuit cells, he skipped the initial courting steps so critical to successful fruit fly unions and tried to do everything at one time. The end result: He failed to mate.
"So what normally takes a total of four minutes is reduced to just 10 seconds, and that doesn't work very well," Baker explained to Australia's Herald Sun, noting that the fruit fly's basic cellular functions are very similar to those of humans (in case you wondered). "It wouldn't surprise me to learn that human sexual behaviors also have underneath them a basic circuitry in the nervous system that mediates attractions and mating," he told Reuters. The study findings were reported in the journal Nature.
