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Friday, July 18, 2008

 

HEADS UP
By Joel P. Palacios
You don’t understand

 
MOST men think the look of love is all in the woman’s eyes. But scientists say it is the hips that tell you she’s ready. The men look for meaning in the eyes, when they should be studying the hips, too. No wonder they often read the signals wrong. Sexy hips are among the women’s best assets. When used to maximum effect, it can stop traffic in a busy avenue.

The men are easy dupes for women with sexy hips. They couldn’t avoid gaping at a well-chiseled buttock tossing and swaying gently as a long-legged woman saunters on the side­walk and crosses the street. You can hear the tires squeal as the men eagerly step on the brakes. Sexy hips play tricks on the men’s imaginations. As a result, they look at the woman’s hips for the wrong reasons.

Some men insist the sexy hips were meant to merely arouse the men’s desires. They believe the tossing and the swaying are intended to attract their attention and elicit such reaction as “wow.” Nobody went to prison by saying “wow.” So most men stick to just saying “wow.” You hear them say “wow” in various ways, and the top one is “wow na wow.”

And Miss Swaying Hips must be disappointed that few men have the courage to express their reactions in more concrete terms, especially if the swaying and tossing were a signal that says: come and introduce yourself.

It is possible the swaying hip is meant as a signal to a particular person. But if that person misses the message, the signal is completely lost to others. Men are stupid.

Some men are so dense they get the message after a whack in the head. In the old days, the cave woman would have used a big club. “Hey, why you did that?” the man says. She says: “Because I walk like this (vigorously swaying her hips). You don’t understand.”

Men who spend time studying their profile in the mirror and are vocal about their exploits with the opposite sex claim a woman who walks with a seductive sway of the hips is actually ovulating and vulnerable to sexual advances. Well, they are also dead wrong.

A research team at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada said women in the fertile period of their menstrual cycle walk with small hip movements and with their knees closer together. Forty male volunteers were shown footage of walking women dressed in suits with light reflectors placed on their joints and limbs. Other than filming their gaits, the women also gave saliva samples to assess their hormone levels. The men were asked to rate those with the sexiest walk. The winners were those who turned out to be in the least fertile part of their cycle.

Like the hips, the eyes also give signals because the “look of love”
is all in the eyes, the researchers said. (They should call the hip
signal: the “hip of love.”) Looking directly at someone makes you more attractive to them, the researchers said. Except that the woman can get confused, too. She says: “Hoy Pedro huwag mo ako tingnan ng ganyan. Hihingi ka na naman ng pera.”

Better stick to the hips. Surely you get more pleasure studying the hips rather than searching the eyes for important signals.
You don’t need a college degree to learn the secrets of hip sway. But you need to be alert. What is the signal when she walks awkward, knees knocking, steady gait, feet almost together in small measured steps, with no tossing or swaying of the hips? It’s likely she’s ovulating and vulnerable, according to researchers. Watch out when she walks sexy. She’s sending out a message, but the signal may not be for you. You make a wrong move and you get a big whack in the head. It’s that cave woman again. You say: “Hey why you did that?” She says: “Because I walk this way (tossing her hips left and right), you don’t understand.”

Now, you know the big secret. When you see a beautiful woman trying not to look sexy when she walks down the street, put on your big smile and say “hi.” Who knows you might get lucky. If your smile doesn’t work you would know immediately. If she’s carrying an umbrella, there goes the cave woman again. Wham! You say: “Hey why you did that?” She says: “Because it means no. You don’t understand.”

palaciosjp@sss.gov.ph

   
 

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