More weird boob science
Can science help lap dancers earn more?
You know how much I love those offbeat scientific research studies. Here’s a good one.
A report from the University of New Mexico theorizes that ovulation might increase financial clout.
Psychologist Geoffrey Miller observed the dancers at gentlemen’s clubs and counted the tips made on their lap dances. Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility versus $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.
Miller linked the income differences to changes in body odor, waist-to-hip ratio, and facial features. He says there may be subtle shifts in dancers’ behavior due to their fertility cycle, such as “how they talk and move when enticing a customer to buy a dance, and how they perform the dance itself.”
Dancers on the pill averaged $37 versus $53 for women off the pill. The pill produces hormonal cues indicating early pregnancy which might, in a bio-chemical way, discourage an interested guy. Therefore, birth control could lead to lost income for a stripper.
The researchers were surprised that no one in the exotic dance business had noticed these bio-patterns. Miller suggested that a woman in any service-industry job should schedule more shifts during the phase right before ovulation. “It might help to know about this so that they can exploit these effects,” he said.
Science doesn’t explain how Miller was able to persuade the dancers to report their tips to him. That’s usually tougher than breaking into Fort Knox!