The power of a deep male voice

Aug 10, 2005

IF your girlfriend’s phone puts you on voice mail, don’t just speak. First take a deep breath, summon your deeper most voice and send her voice recorder vibrating. I bet she won’t play it once.

By Hilary Bainemigisha

IF your girlfriend’s phone puts you on voice mail, don’t just speak. First take a deep breath, summon your deeper most voice and send her voice recorder vibrating. I bet she won’t play it once.

There is a time my friend Joanita introduced her boyfriend to me with a warning: “But he has a ka-soft voice!” So, when he greeted me, I answered in the deepest voice I could muster. And she took offence.

That means there is more than meets the eye with a deep voice. That feeling of jealousy a man gets and the ‘wow’ a woman gets when a guy with a deeper voice is introduced says it all. Men with deep, gravely voices shoot straight in matters of love.

According to science, the depth of a man’s voice is determined by the action of testosterone and the descent of the larynx in the vocal tract during puberty. According to anthropologists, voices signal to females a man’s hormonal and genetic quality while demonstrating social dominance to other male rivals. Many animals use vocal calls to attract females and intimidate their male competitors.

That is why you should use it in romance. Put your mouth closer to her ear and vibrate words of love and encouragement. Your bullets will be sent straight to the battlefield as soon as they reach her brains. Who says all women need 30 minutes to attain a proper operating temperature? But why?

Females want to bond with a superior mate. And a deep voice reflects genetic fitness. Two independent researches on voices by Northumbria University at Newcastle and the University of Nottingham, both in England, explored the links between sexual attraction and vocal pitch. A number of men’s voices were recorded and people were asked to rate the voices on things like attractiveness, dominance, confidence and sexiness among other things. They were then shown photos, separately, and asked to rate them too.

Both women and men rated deep voiced men more highly. But what was also surprising was the faces rated attractive turned out to belong to the men with deep voices. That pointed a finger at some kind of link, possibly testosterone, the male hormone, which also determines some facial features such as a strong jaw line (like mine), which most women find attractive. Both concluded that men who want to boost their sex appeal should try imitating deep voices.

When you hear women praising John Kaahwa of Kads Band, you can feel jealous and insecure. Many bands have their ‘Ken Rogers, ‘Luther vandross’ and ‘Jim Reeves’, who send women screaming. Other voice vibrators include Sam Gombya, Kaka, Jimmy Katumba and myself –– No, I am jiving.

Deep voices exude attraction, masculine dominance, sex appeal, assertiveness, confidence and friendly patronage. A deep voice signifies authority, dependability, superiority and strength. Even in Biblical films, God does not speak to Moses the way Yusuf Lule (RIP) spoke to Ugandans. God is shown as vibrating from the Mt Sinai, creating an aura of invincibility.

A deep voice seems to announce that you don’t take crap from anyone, you exist in your own space and the rest adapts to you. And there, ladies and gentlemen, lie virtues that smell gold to female nostrils.

Because when such a voice starts pleading for love and affection, a woman feels great to have the indomitable voice PLEADING for her heart. That boosts her self-esteem and presses special buttons a high-pitched guy will never access –– unless he starts eating a lot of pepper.

A high-pitched male voice sounds immature and adolescent. It inspires nobody but children who cannot get sleep. It insinuates castration, which generates dehorned men. That is probably why Joanita’s pride in her guy hid face when he opened his mouth.

Without a deep voice, you need to play football like David Beckham, sing like Abdu Mulaasi or have money like Phillip Besimire to make any sense to many women.

But don’t just lie there in self-pity if you are a man who coos like a dove. Try your hardest to get the deepest voice you can muster. Time mornings when voices are at their deepest and call her (if she is away) to wish her a good day with the deepest of your deep voices. That, I can bet, will keep vibrating in her heart throughout the day.

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