Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 01:29 PM by OneTenthofOnePercent
"why couldn't it be that the men find the women less attractive because they prefer the women they are with thereby making a fertile women less appealing because they have less interest? "
You're scenario might be true if men could consciously recognize women were in the fertile portion of their menstrual cycle. However, such a sensory detection of pheromones is subconscious and instinctual in nature. Even the conscious doesn't directly realize it after instinctively detecting such scents. Therefore preference, interest and the choice of monogamy are completely off the table as reasons of rating attractiveness.
I think another thing this study shows is the subconscious/instinctual predisposition for humans to be monogamous. Notice how subjects with mates rated females less attractive when fertile.
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