By OLIVIA FOSTER, MAIL ONLINE
Women who have more male friends and colleagues are having more sex than women who surround themselves with females.
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These ‘guys’ girls’ enjoy more romantic attention because their boyfriends and partners feel in competition with their male friends which pushes them to try harder in the bedroom, according to research.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, revealed men were also more attracted to their partners when they subconsciously suspected they might be unfaithful.
Michael Pham, the lead author on the study told Fusion: ‘A lot of work shows that men are sexually aroused by their partner when they estimate a greater likelihood of partner infidelity.
‘This does not mean that men want their partner to cheat on them. Rather, this means that if they estimate a greater likelihood of their partner’s infidelity, then they may (subconsciously) want to have sex with her to enter into sperm competition.’
Pham and his co-workers studied 400 men in relationships, asking them to report on subjects such as how attractive they found their partner, how many male friends they believed their partner to have and how attractive they believed these friends to find them.
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