Study suggests women keep their men away from friends and colleagues who are ovulating

LADIES, be honest: Do you lock up your blokes? Science says you’re hiding your hot hubbies from female friends and colleagues — especially if they’re ovulating.

The new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology states: “For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats — including to mate retention.”
Sound right?
Does this go some way to explaining your office-party dynamic?
Apparently, ladies are finely tuned to those subtle feminine signals that intone ‘I’m ready’.
“Women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers,” the study’s abstract reads.
It’s well established that men find themselves drawn to highly fertile women — even if they don’t realise it.
How do we know this? Studies of lap dancers show they earn the most ‘tips’ when they’re ovulating.
The opposite is also true: Research shows fertile women tend to respond more to desirable male features than they are during the rest of the month.
Thus the particular need to lock up a ‘hot’ partner.

“Ovulating women may be perceived to pose heightened threats to other women’s romantic relationships,” the study predicts.
It seems he’s simply not expected to be capable of restraining himself.
Thus the need for some ‘female intuition’ to warn of when another woman may be moving in on your patch.
A series of experiments appears to have borne this out.
Subjects were shown photographs of other women taken at different stages of their menstrual cycles.
Without knowing the details, they were then asked who they’d like to mingle with socially.
Subjects consistently chose to avoid socialising with those who were ovulating.
“But only when their own partners were highly desirable,” the study reports.
There’s another twist to the findings, though.
It seems your bloke’s desirability to others is itself a turn-on.
“Exposure to ovulating women also increased women’s sexual desires for their (highly desirable) partners.”
So, “not tonight dear, I’ve got a headache” — when used as an excuse to dodge an office social function — may be more promising than is immediately obvious to your significant other!