Great Dancers Make The Fittest Performers

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie!" - Agnes de Mille

By Patrick Driessen
As you might know or even have experienced; a king on the dance floor is a king in bed! And yes.... there now is scientific proof about what makes a great male dancer a fit bedroom performer and why & how women recognise this talent.....

The first proven fact is that women are right to go for men who can strut their stuff like John Travolta or Patrick Swayze - as they are more likely to be strong and to produce healthy offspring!

German scientists Nadine Hugill and Bernhard Fink of the German University of Göttingen found that men whose dancing was rated as attractive and assertive by women were physically stronger than those whose moves were dismissed as below par. "We already know women use static cues such as facial and bodily characteristics in their assessments of men," says Bernhard Fink. "This new study shows that dynamic cues such as dancing ability might also be used to assess male quality in terms of strength and dominance - traits which eventually signal status."

The researchers recorded video clips of 40 heterosexual male students dancing to the drum track of the great Robbie Williams song; "Let Me Entertain You". Participants wore white overalls, and a blurring filter was used to disguise information about their clothing, as well as face and body shape. Hand grip strength was measured using a dynamometer.

Researcher Fink had already discovered that men who were exposed to higher levels of testosterone in the womb, as indicated by the relative lengths of their index and ring fingers, were rated as more attractive, dominant and masculine by women who watched clips of them dancing. Research also shows that women generally find very masculine facial features more attractive, particularly around their ovulation.

"This would make sense from an evolutionary perspective. Being able to select high-quality males on the basis of visual cues is likely to have promoted certain females through sexual selection," says Gayle Brewer, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire, in Preston, UK.

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful!" - Agnes De Mille

Besides dancing the night away, what can you do as (gentle)man? Well.... like I always like to say: "An investment in oneself is the best investment you can ever make!" If you currently don't really rock on the dance floor, you better invest in some dance lessons! Although women sometimes ask me while I'm dancing "What kind of drugs are you on?", I have just booked myself in for Bachata dance lessons to improve my Salsa dance skills! Always keep on educating yourself!

And in case you can not or don't like to dance: change the game! Stay away from the dance floor and show your unique qualities in other ways!

"Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music!" - George Bernard Shaw

Make this a Positive & Swinging day....unless you have other plans!

Thanks, warm regards & success,

Patrick Driessen

PS: I don't use drugs! Great music always brings me into Ecstasy on the dance floor! What about you?