Lap Dancers Earn More During Peak Ovulation – How The Pill Affects Your Sex Drive
Christopher Philip
We can all learn something from someone. It turns out that this is the case even from lap dancers! Research published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Geoffrey Miller Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico found that ovulatory cycles have a significant impact on tips earned by exotic dancers.
In the experiment, he followed 18 dancers over the course of 60 days for a total of 296 work shifts and about 5300 lap dances. Each day, the dancers were required to input various data electronically into a program including their mood, work hours, work location, tip earnings and whether they had begun or ceased menstruation.
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The data was analyzed based on the premise that fertility is highest around days 9-15 of the typical 29 day menstrual cycle and lowest around days 1-8 (follicular days including menstruation) and days 16-28 (luteal phase). It was condensed, with days dropped to account for possible fertility and possible mood altering affects such as bloating or fatigue. They decided that Menstrual days included days 1-5, Fertile, days 9-15 and Luteal, days 18-28. In neither the menstrual nor the luteal phase is conception possible.
The average earnings was then calculated for each of the three phases.
The Results
Lapdancers, if you’re curious, earned about $250 per 5 hour shift and worked about the same amount of hours regardless of their cycle. The researchers found a strong ovulatory cycle effect on tip earings, but only if the women where not taking oral contraceptives. This is consistent with previous research showing various behaviours women have been noted to take part in during ovulation such as the increased use of make-up, wearing more revealing clothing, and an increase in sexual receptivity.
The research found that all women earn less money during their menstrual days, whether they were taking contraceptives or not. However, the normal cycling women made much more money during their fertile days and more money overall.
During their ovulatory phase, normal cycling women earned about $350, about $90 more than during the luteal phase (post ovulation) and about $170 more than in the menstrual phase (pre-ovulation). In normal cycling women Fertile days yielded about $70 per hour, Luteal days about $50 per hour and Menstrual days $35 per hour.
Interestingly, pill users did not experience any mid-cycle peak. It has been reported that women who use the pill are hormonally tricked into a pseudopregnancy – the body thinks it’s always pregnant. This effect erases the fertility peak resulting in lesser amplification of behaviour over the course of the pill cycle. The results of this means that dancers using the pill only made $193 per shift rather than $276 per shift, a net difference of $80 per shift.
Study Conclusions
This study is interesting because it is the first time economics was tied specifically to ovulation characteristics. As we know, economics is real and immediate, and therefore shows an accurate assessment of how people really behave in the world since it factors in true constraints. When compared with surveys, which often rely on subjective feedback laden with personal bias or observational studies which also carry bias, economics has a way of stripping these effects away and letting the data speak.
In this study, it was calculated through real currency that men prefer women who ovulate and, or, that women behave in a way that facilitates sex or sexuality during ovulation. It also shows how women who take the pill differ from women who don’t. Certainly, a romantic relationship isn’t a financial or economic transaction, not exactly, but in an arms race between two women, one who cycles naturally and the pill takers, it is the pill takers who will suffer.
Have a critical look at the graph. At virtually no point in the cycle do pill users have a greater monetary influence over their patrons than do those who cycle naturally. The women are giving off cues to their male customers making it conducive for them to cooperate with them. They might smell better through pheromones, they may be better listeners (it’s been noted that men are who hire dancers are lonely), or they may have more seductive body language. Whatever the case, the results speak for themselves.
The repercussions of this effect in a long term sexual relationship can only be speculated. Could artificial hormones packaged as contraceptives be reaping havoc on the sex lives of women and the men in their lives.? It’s already well documented that women have lower drives than men, so an additional handicap is not required.
The advice for women working in exotic dancing is obvious – boost your income by dropping the pill. The advice to produce a long successful marriage – is probably not much different.
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Resources
Geoffrey Miller, Joshua M. Tybur, Brent D. Jordan. Ovulatory Cycle Effects On Tip Earnings By Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence For Human Estrus? Evolution and Human Behavior, 2007; 28: 375–381.
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