Women who are ready to conceive are the least likely to walk with a sexy wiggle, according to scientists.

A Queen's University, Ontario, team examined volunteers' walks and the levels of sex hormones in their saliva. They found those with alluring walks were the furthest away from ovulation - the opposite of what they expected.

Women give a variety of signals to advertise when they are ready to conceive and lead researcher Meighan Provost had expected a sexy walk to be among them.  She analysed the gait of female volunteers, showed video clips to 40 men, asking them to rate the attractiveness of the way the women walked, and then matched the results to the hormone tests.

She said the results, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour, were so surprising that she had repeated the experiment again with another group of male viewers. The women who were most fertile at the time of the experiment walked with fewer hip movements and with their knees closer together.

She now thinks the findings tally with other research suggesting that women want to conceal their ovulation from males other than their chosen partner. Ms Provost said: "If women are trying to protect themselves from sexual assault at times of peak fertility, it would make sense for them to advertise attractiveness on a broad scale when they are not fertile."

The toast is...the Ladies, may they deceive us evermore.


Leave it Frank, she's not ovulating.