Sexy Strolling = Attractive Ambulation

Can you make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex just by changing the way you walk? A new scientific study suggests that maybe you can.

Researchers who study such things have long thought that the waist to hip ratio is the magical cue that makes a man find a woman`s body attractive. That’s supposedly why men tend to prefer women with the classic hourglass figure.

But according to Scientific American.com, movement also plays an important role in the unconscious assessment of beauty. In a study done by Johnson and Tassinary at Texas A&M University and published in the March 13 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 370 panelists were asked to view a series of images of figures. Some images were still photos; others “walked” in place at different gaits. The panelists rated the degree of attractiveness of the figures and how masculine or feminine they thought the figures were.

The result showed that the panelists based their assessment of attractiveness on a combination of the visual outline of the figure and its movement. For example, a woman who had a shapely waist to hip ratio but who walked stiffly was generally perceived as less attractive than someone with the same figure who moves her hips. This is not exactly a shocking discovery, but it does make us wonder how much our image of beauty can be impacted just by having the right kind of walk. It also makes me wonder how the panelists rated the figure if she was walking in a sexy pair of Manolo’s.

So the next time you`re filling out one of those online dating profiles for Match.com, Eharmony, or Perfectmatch, consider attaching a video clip of yourself sashaying across the room. You might have better luck.