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Attention ladies! If you're interested in a great sex life, look no further than a marathon runner." Marathon runners are the best in bed," proclaimed a recent headline. According to the latest scientific research, long-distance runners are red-hot...scientifically speaking.
The headline is based on a study that merely looked at long-distance runners’ finger ratios -- said to be a marker for high testosterone levels -- not reported partner sexual satisfaction (or, as other sources indicate, high sperm counts and "reproductive fitness").
If marathon runners are great lovers and desirable to women, why? The obvious conclusion is that they are in excellent physical condition: low body-fat levels, no protruding beer bellies, and they possess both a dedication to good health and a work ethic that's off-the-charts.
But There May Be Another Factor Involved
The fact that a man is willing to dedicate so much effort and time into his pastime signals that in a natural selection sense, this is indeed a high-quality male, or, as single women are fond of saying, “quite a catch.” According to new research, long-distance running might be the mark, natural-selection-wise, of a high-quality male, one that women would do well to select as a mate.
According to researchers, long-distance runners are more likely to have higher levels of testosterone and could have evolutionary signs of desirable genes. Higher testosterone levels (the male sex hormone) can deliver evolutionary advantages such as high sex drive and sperm count and athletic ability. Researchers are debating the question: did females look favorably upon males with good long-distance running ability eons ago in the hunter-gatherer past?
And if they did, was it a result of their capacity to snag prey? In the journal PLoS One, researchers say that “persistence hunting” (catching prey through long-distance pursuits) was probably one of the more useful forms of hunting before the domestication of dogs, and therefore may have played a significant role in the direction that humans evolved.
In their study, the researchers measured the testosterone levels of exposure in the womb, which sets baseline levels later on in life, in marathon runners and compared this with their finishing times in the most extensive study of marathon runners of this kind. The results? They found a direct link between quicker times and higher testosterone levels.
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