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Scientists Offer Explanation For Why Men Ogle Women
Metro UK ^ | Wednesday 26 Jun 2013

Posted on 06/26/2013 11:04:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Yes dear, I am eyeing her up… it’s in my genes: Scientists offer explanation for why men ogle women

If you catch your man’s eyes wandering when a beautiful stranger walks past, don’t blame him – it’s all the fault of evolution.

Chaps are naturally drawn to people they have never seen before while women prefer familiar male faces, a study reveals.

Men were shown pairs of photographs of women and asked to rate their attractiveness for the research at Scotland’s Glasgow and Stirling universities.

When photos were produced for a second time alongside previously unseen images, they were distracted by the new women and tended to lower their rating of the original ones.

If that makes man sound stupid, women should not scoff too loudly because the same applied to them in reverse, with the ratings increasing the second time around.

The preferences developed because early man stood a better chance of reproducing if he slept with many partners while pre-historic women were more likely to survive with a trustworthy provider, the researchers suggest.

While the results, published in the Journal of Sexual Behaviour, make for interesting reading, women whose partners claim their ogling is genetic should not be fooled too easily.

By the logic of the experiment, men ought to find much-photographed stars such as Rihanna a complete turn-off.


TOPICS: Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: anotherstudy; napl; nature; science
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To: Daffynition

o/~ Pretty woman... o/~


21 posted on 06/26/2013 11:33:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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22 posted on 06/26/2013 11:35:18 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: max americana
I don't know max. Maybe I'm a man deep inside. The same ole' is the same ole' to this lady and new hot dude is distraction central. Oh well. God gifted some of us females with more fun potential (or maybe it's just additional testosterone. lol) We all know I don't look even close to a man. So go figure.

This also doesn't explain the new UPS guy in the office and the female squeals coming from the desks when he walks in.

23 posted on 06/26/2013 11:37:41 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Eaker
By the logic of the experiment, men ought to find much-photographed stars such as Rihanna a complete turn-off.

who says they don't. At first guys seem to notice her and then it was HO hum (literally).

24 posted on 06/26/2013 11:40:51 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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25 posted on 06/26/2013 11:41:29 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: nickcarraway

“I’m a girl watcher
I’m a girl watcher
watching girls go by
My oh my”


26 posted on 06/26/2013 11:43:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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27 posted on 06/26/2013 11:47:27 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: GOP Poet

Maybe those squeals are because he has a bunch of packages from Zappos.


28 posted on 06/26/2013 11:53:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Maybe those squeals are because he has a bunch of packages from Zappos.

Ah. A man that knows women :).

29 posted on 06/26/2013 11:54:46 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: nickcarraway

... and why men who ogle men who ogle men end up with hundreds of different partners.


30 posted on 06/27/2013 12:02:36 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: nickcarraway
My wife does a good job of alerting me to ones I am missing. I don't know how I achieved that but I did.

"Hot Babe 3 o'clock."

31 posted on 06/27/2013 12:05:21 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: nickcarraway
Can I get a government grant to study this intensively?


32 posted on 06/27/2013 12:05:26 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: GOP Poet
who says they don't.

Maybe my post wasn't clear.

I don't speak for others but I found her a turn-off the first time I ever saw her. I also am not really sure what she does that made her "famous". She isn't a country singer or conservative radio host that's for sure.

33 posted on 06/27/2013 12:14:06 AM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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>> early man stood a better chance of reproducing if he slept with many partners

And they call this: ‘science’... short on real news???

The last thing any man needs is an explanation about his bang list.


34 posted on 06/27/2013 12:19:45 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Eaker

Agreed.


35 posted on 06/27/2013 12:21:16 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t know about about ogling but i think it’s natural for women to look at men when they walk by only they don’t ogle.


36 posted on 06/27/2013 2:12:39 AM PDT by Gefn (More Cowbell please)
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To: Eaker

I understand. Yes were clear. It was me that was unclear. :) I actually just wanted to comment on the same comment you selected and oddly picked your post to do so. It was a weird sort of way to say I agree with you. Albeit a completely roundabout way. :) Good night my FRiend.


37 posted on 06/27/2013 2:29:40 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: nickcarraway

Thank goodness American taxpayers didn’t pay for this waste of time, obvious answer study.


38 posted on 06/27/2013 3:14:17 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: nickcarraway

I’d like them to explain women and shoes!


39 posted on 06/27/2013 3:18:50 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: nickcarraway

Faces. Good one. Yeah I was looking at new faces.


40 posted on 06/27/2013 3:24:13 AM PDT by pas
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