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Staying Alive

The Daily Telegraph advised single men to hide their obsessions, buy decent footwear (‘shoes are, still, terrifyingly important to women, for some reason’) and ‘learn to dance, or at least be willing to dance’ this week, in a new guide to finding love in the twenty-first century.

“Obviously, it’s mortifying, but dancing seems to be a big thing for some women,” the newspaper revealed, “It may become less of an issue in later life, but we doubt it.” (Telegraph)

The article appeared just as Harvard’s newspaper the Crimson revealed that 42% of students at the elite business school had zero sexual partners during the past academic year, while Connecticut University published a dancing related feature titled ‘We’re all gonna’ get laid . . . maybe’.

“It’s hard for some of you to believe, but there are people on campus who want to have sex and can’t. Over two decades of college movies have left an entire sub-generation with the belief that even the nerdiest of nerds can get laid effortlessly at college,” said Connecticut campus correspondent Steven Crighton.

“Maybe you can’t dance?” he continued, advising socially awkward students to similarly take up dancing classes or at least attend ‘parties where you can make an idiot out of yourself’.

“Above all else, just have fun,” he recommended, “It might sound like advice your mom would give you, but you look the most natural when you’re comfortable.”

The importance of dancing not just adequately but impressively, however, was emphasized by former professional dancer turned psychologist Peter Lovatt this week who said men dancing with minimally or with uncoordinated floundering movements are universally rejected by women.

“Women simply don’t like it small and simple,” he told German newspaper Der Spiegel last week, “Men can communicate their testosterone levels through the way they dance,” he added, “And women understand it — without noticing it.” Writing on his website, however, he was a little more encouraging.

“Everyone can dance,” he said on ‘four facts of dance’ displayed on his home page, “Dancing is good for your health . . .  Dancing is good for your well-being and . . Dancing is fun.”

http://dancedrdance.com (Peter Lovatt’s portal: ‘High testosterone men dance differently to low testosterone men. High testosterone men make larger movements and their movements are more complexly coordinated than low testosterone men. High testosterone men express more energy in their movements and they take up more space on the dance floor . . .’)

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