Pheromones at Play

It’s also possible that the woman’s physiology is changing subtly and unnoticeably throughout pregnancy, increasing the male attraction to her. Men rated women as more attractive when viewing photographs of their faces during a fertile menstrual cycle window. This finding, reported in a study by the Royal Society, suggests that women may emit the tiniest visible cues “for raising a female’s relative value in the mating market.” According to Annie Tomlin, a writer for Elle, this prompted her to postulate that women are “biologically magnetic” due to a “swell of prenatal estrogen or pheromones.”

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