In these Olympic besotted times there are few things that shift the attention of the masses from Athens. Enough subtly The Green Man is pulling out the big guns in the attention seeking stakes. Yes, in an effort to break the herculean grip of Olympic fever it is time the post an article on sex.

New Scientist reports on a study by linguist Amy Perfors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston where she found that your name has an impact on how sexy you are perceived by the opposite sex. Men having a 'front sounding" vowel in their name as in Matt are viewed as sexier than men whose parents inflicted them with a "back sounding" vowel, such as in Paul.

Of course, if you are a bit of a hunk it probably doesn't matter. Amy says

An attractive person with a bad vowel name is still more attractive than an unattractive person with a good vowel name

For the rest of us, it is off to the registry office to change our names to Matt.