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Dirty Little Secret of Love and Dating
 There's a bit of the cavewoman in every 21st century feminist. Women who are fertile will judge other women more harshly to the point of even making scathing remarks about their rival's appearance in order to win the attention of a desirable man.
It's long been known that men have engaged in intense intrasexual competition. Turns out, women do too, albeit in an indirectly aggressive way, New Scientist and Nature News Service report of research from York University in Toronto, Canada. Psychologist and lead study author Maryanne Fisher speculates that a woman's nasty and mean behavior is a way to devalue potential rivals.
The study: In the first study of its kind, Fisher presented a group of 57 female students, along with male controls, with photographs of 35 female faces and 30 male faces. All the participants were heterosexual. The models for the photos were asked to display a neutral facial expression, wear a black smock, and remove any accessories. The students were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each photographed woman on a seven-point scale from extremely unattractive to extremely attractive.
The results: When women were in the most fertile phase of their menstrual cycles from days 12 to 21, they rated the attractiveness of other women significantly lower than when they were not fertile. "When you're in a high fertility phase, you have to be more able to judge other women as potential rivals," Fisher explained to New Scientist.
This is how women fight: Instead of beating up another woman who dares to look at her man suggestively, a woman will instead say, "Oh, look how fat her tummy is!" Fisher isn't sure how a woman's heightened sense of competition during ovulation may help her win a mate. "Does putting someone down make you feel better about yourself? Or does saying it to a male make her less attractive to him?" she asked New Scientist.
Previous research conducted by David Perrett, an expert on facial perception at St. Andrew's University in the United Kingdom, found that the stage of a woman's menstrual cycle determined the type of man to whom she was attracted. When women are fertile, they prefer rugged, dominant men, while the rest of the month they prefer more feminine-looking, caring men.
The study findings were published in the journal Biology Letters.
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Welcome to FREE FUN PAGE Mile High Club Founding
Member
Aerial Petting Leads To Wetting
Lawrence Sperry - Flier, Inventor
Mile High Club's Founder
Page B22 - Atlantic Flyer, May 1993
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"There are countless milestones and record breaking performances throughout aviation history; altitude and speed,
distance and endurance, and so forth. Perhaps the most highly prized and sought after is the entry into the Mile-High Club
- that fraternal order of pilots, both male and female, who have achieved orgasm aloft. There are no official numbers, but
evidently those who manage copulation in the air are far fewer than those making claim." |
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"If it is a major aeronautical achievement as everyone claims, then
proper recognition should be given to the first person to attempt the
sacred act at altitude. That honor can only be bestowed upon Lawrence
Sperry, a daredevil pilot, mechanical genius, and of course, inventor
of the automatic pilot. Born on December 22, 1892, Sperry lived only a
scant 31 years. But in that short lifespan his accomplishments were
great. At the age of 18, he built a full scale glider that flew. Wild
in the sky, he made his first parachute jump in 1918 and flew loops
under the Brooklyn Bridge. He would be the first person to fly a woman
over New York City. As a mechanical visionary he invented the turn and
bank indicator, retractable landing gear, and perfected the aerial
torpedo. During his short remarkable life he held 24 patents." |
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"Besides intellect, Sperry was also handsome and rich, a combination that led to a succession of women, and according
to biographer William Davenport, oftentimes multiple partners. The tabloids liked him, and had a field day with the stories
about drinking and wild parties. You have to remember this was during a time when it was unlawful for women to display
bare arms in public." |
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"It was during November of 1916, when Sperry began giving flying lessons to a New York socialite by the name of Mrs.
Waldo Polk. Polk's husband was off in France driving an ambulance at the time. The couple were aloft in a Curtiss flying
boat over Babylon, New York one day, evidently engaging in carnal pleasure through the benefit of Sperry's recently
devised autopilot. Suddenly something went wrong, and the plane plunged 500 feet into great South Bay." |
"Two duck hunters paddled to the wreck and rescued, much to their amazement, the naked couple. Apparently Sperry
stated the crash "divested" them of their clothing. The couple was brought to Southside Hospital, with Sperry walking, and
Polk alongside in a stretcher."
![[Image]](images/sperry5.gif) "Local papers glossed over
the fact that the duo lacked any clothes, but the New York tabloid Mirror & Evening Graphic,
headlined their front page with:
AERIAL PETTING - ENDS IN WETTING
"Both instructor and student survived their ordeal and Sperry later told a friend that he bumped the gyro platform during
their aerial maneuvering. Sperry would crash his Sperry Messenger biplane in the English Channel seven years later, ending
his life."
"And Mrs. Polk...well, she continued taking flying lessons and did obtain her pilot's license."
Special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Sperry of the Sperry Corporation for
allowing us to reproduce his late grandfather's mile high club story.
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