TLDR: When a woman is logged into a dating site, chances are she's ovulating and no matter what she says to other people, she can't actually help herself because she is a temporary sex-retard. If shirtless selfies didn't work, nobody would have them.

Disclosure: I don't have a shirtless selfie yet because I need 10lbs more of lean gains before I wouldn't be embarrassed to see it doxed. If you wondered what makes guys use them, this is how the thinking goes.

Reading dating profiles of chicks, lots of them say, "and pls no shirtless selfie profile photos." I've been out with a few groups where a bunch of post-wall women are going on about how "gross" they are, and how they would never go out with a guy who had one. Except when they do.

For those few days each month between periods, her body is craving AF and if she is both marginally attractive and doesn't have a social anxiety disorder, she will be all over tinder and pof looking to get stuffed. This is when she (e.g. like most women) is online.

The rest of the month, sure, she's looking for BB and some quirky funny guy she can show off to her friends, but she's a lot less likely to be cruising for anonymous internet sex on those days because she is probably still too busy picking up the pieces, destroying evidence, and tying off loose ends from her last adventure, that "just happened."

If she is online during the day when she has other things to be doing, chances are she's in a fertility-haze and looking for the most AF guy she thinks she can get. She doesn't read your profile, she doesn't care what you do. Mostly what she cares about is that you look like will be able to fuck, leave and never speak of it again. Shirtless selfies don't work for 25 days/mo, of which she may be online for only a few, but they do work when it counts.

The less your profile (and you in person) engages her critical faculties, the more likely you can just go right to bed with her.

If you lift, or at least have abs, a tight shirt or shirtless photo will get you laid. Not because you are awesome, interesting, or witty, but because you are ready, available, and pre-selected by women blinded by their monthly breeding-goggles.

They will bitch about it for the rest of the month, but who cares. I'd even bet $1000 that if we had the okc or pof login data for female users, we could predict their ovulation cycles to within a couple of days. If I were an advertiser, I'd pay extra to put ads in front of women when they were in this biologically impaired state.

Lessons learned:

  • A shirtless selfie profile pic is a biologically rational strategy.

  • Just like you can't stick it in her masters degree, she doesn't want to get plowed by your scenic vacation.

  • Yeah, sex-retard.