The "simple" math of fashion and attraction

Ladies, are you trying to attract a man? (Of course you are!) Do you go out to clubs every night just hoping someone will ask you dance, but instead you go and you stand there alone like you're living inside a Smiths song? Well fret no more, for England's Telegraph has solved your man-hunting woes once and for all!

And the answer is this: you're not showing the right amount of skin:

Using tape recorders hidden in their handbags, the researchers took note of what female clubbers were wearing and how many times they were approached by men asking them to dance.

For the purposes of the study, each arm accounted for 10 per cent of the body, each leg for 15 per cent and the torso for 50 per cent.

Women who revealed around 40 per cent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up.

However, those who exposed any more than this also fared worse. Experts believe that showing too much flesh puts men off because it suggests they might be unfaithful.

It's so simple! All you have to do is show exactly 40% of your body's skin. Too little and men will think you're a prude; too much and men will think you're a tramp. And what's really nice is that this super simplification of human attraction isn't insulting or patronizing at all.

It does raise a few questions, though. For instance, does my face count? Is this like the SATs where I'll get 200 free points just for not leaving the house in a ski mask every day? And given that the study was performed in England it seems only fair to ask what women are expected to do in the winter. Should we just suck it up and get hypothermia or expect men to ignore us if we choose to avoid frostbite? Do men find amputated limbs sexy as long as their uncovered? A truly thorough study would have addressed these things. After all, we women need this information so that we can achieve our true purpose for existing: attracting a man!

Obviously we need more information. For that, I direct you to this clip from The House Bunny. At 47 seconds in there's a primer on "skimplifying" which I think is very helpful for just this sort of thing. Except of course for the part about revealing your torso, because that will make men think you're going to cheat on them. So just ignore that part.