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WE'RE SENSE-LESS Q I like to check out women no matter where I am or who I am with. If I am with my girlfriend I have noticed something strange: Whether she is watching me or not she spots me ogling other women. Even if I drop back a bit out of her sight she still seems to catch me. Do women have a sixth sense in this regard? Do they have a better sense of sight than guys do? S.L. A Women have a better sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and - maybe not better - a different sense of touch. A recent study claims that women, unlike men, have a wider peripheral vision enabling them to see up to 180 degrees. This wider vision is an evolutionary trait women have developed and is so acute it has protected them for some time from male predators sneaking up on them from behind. Men have developed tunnel vision. We are constantly focusing on a specific target, helping us, in evolutionary terms, to hunt down our prey and kill it. Women’s hearing is also more acute because it is also an evolutionary trait. Historically women had to rely on their sense of hearing for cues as to how their baby was doing. Every sigh and every cry from their baby meant something important for women through the ages. Because women's hearing is so accustomed to particular sounds, you should learn how to use your voice more, especially to get your girlfriend in the mood. Women need to be appreciated and hear you say how beautiful and valued they are. We all have olfactory glands in our nose. The female’s olfactory glands are much more developed than a male’s. Women pick up critical information from our scents, especially when we sweat. Sweat is not a bad bodily function, as it contains pheromones women may be attracted to when selecting a mate. Men try to remove sweat and its scent with deodorant and cologne. A man would be better off not using that much deodorant and having his girlfriend choose the cologne she likes best. She'll feel an attachment toward that cologne and you for wearing it. Women s sense of taste is even sharper, which is also an evolutionary feature. While men went hunting for fresh meat, women were back at the cave picking sweet berries. Women developed keen taste buds by determining which berries were good and sweet and which were poisonous. You can tap into that attribute simply by buying her some Lindt chocolates. One of the ingredients in chocolate is phenylethylamine, which stimulates the brain s pleasure centers and leads to feelings of excitement, alertness, and to increases in heart rate and blood pressure. Women s sense of touch has also developed through their care of babies. A gentler, softer touch is what women prefer. Men have rough, coarse, strong hands designed for taking down prey and gutting it. A woman s sense of " touch is not necessarily better, just different. Women enjoy receiving a light, gentle touch' during foreplay, not the results of that rough, ' manhandling instinct men possess. To stand a chance against your girlfriends J superb peripheral vision when you are in the_ ogling mode, track in which direction a woman may be heading and determine where she will be in 30 seconds. Stare blankly at that spot until she comes into your field of sight. Your girlfriend can’t accuse you of staring at another woman because you've been innocently looking in that direction the whole time. You see, we learned through evolution as well.
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