So guess what? It appears that your dance moves could determine if you're likely to have a sexual encounter with a hot babe at the club. But what kind of dance moves?

Researchers and evolutionary biologists from Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen recently broke down the sex science behind the art of the male dance and pinpointed which moves make female observers most interested and/or horny.

From The Washington Post:

[Researchers] recruited 30 men to dance to a core drum beat for 30 seconds. The dancers were given no specific instructions on how to dance beforehand, and their movements were recorded via a sophisticated motion-capture system. Each dancer's 30-second routine was then used to animate a "featureless, gender-neutral" computer-generated avatar. Researchers asked 37 women to view each of the dancing avatars and rate their performance on a seven-point scale.

Here's a video of a winning-dance avatar that women liked:



And here's a dancer that appealed the least to them:



The research team figured out which kinds of body movements were deemed most appealing:

They found that women rated dancers higher when they showed larger and more variable movements of the head, neck and torso. Speed of leg movements mattered too, particularly bending and twisting of the right knee. In what might be bad news for the 20% of the population who is left-footed, left knee movement didn't seem to matter. In fact, certain left-legged movements had a small negative correlation with dancing ability, meaning that dancers who favored left leg motion were rated more poorly. While not statistically significant, these findings suggest that there might be something to that old adage about "two left feet" after all. One final surprise - arm movement didn't correlate with perceived dancing ability in any significant way.

Well there you have it. The next time you go to a club and put the moves on the dance floor, try the winning dance and see if you bag any ladies.