Sexual Selection: Hunkier Than Thou

The Economist ^ | December 9, 2010 | The Economist

[hoyt-clagwell]

The men I’ve always preferred have been the Reagan/Bush tough guy type.

This type?

[hoyt-clagwell]

When ovulating some are not opposed to a "booty call", but when later in the cycle they are calling their "friends".

"friends (with benefits)" ...more common with women than you would know.

[greatplains]

That would do nicely as well, yes.

[ottbmare]

Nah. Nice concept—buff fireman who loves a baby—but this guy is too pretty and he spends too much time in the gym. I wonder if he really knows how to fix a tractor, put up a studwall, find us some dinner in the woods in the event of a TEOTWAWKI scenario, or pray ardently; doubt it. Most guys who know how to do things like that are not so decorative. (Which is not to say I’m prejudiced against decorative men!)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

What women really want:

[SunkenCiv]

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[ElkGroveDan]

LOL

[dsc]

“Dr Brooks suggests that it is not health-related factors, but rather competition and violence among men that best explain a woman’s penchant for manliness. The more rough-and-tumble the environment, the researcher’s argument goes, the more women prefer masculine men, because they are better than the softer types at providing for mothers and their offspring.”

Paging Captain Obvious. You have a government check at the finance office.

[TheOldLady]

New keyboard. Bill’s in the mail.

[TheOldLady]

Wow. It’s an anti-incest, genetic mechanism. Interesting. Who says we don’t have instincts.

[ConservativeMind]

BTTT

[Salamander]

Three types of male “hanging”....:)

[Salamander]

“Why married men behave better: because everything interesting, funny, cool and dangerous has been crushed and ground out of them”

Unless they marry somebody like me who totally gets off on all that “interesting, funny, cool and dangerous” stuff.

The more, the better.

:)

[Salamander]

Huh.

I’d wait ‘til you got off the bike and walked towards me to see if you were worth following.

;D

[Salamander]

I married a “bad boy”.

He only “abuses” other ‘bad boys’ who look at me for what he considers “too long”.

Does that count?

[HungarianGypsy]

My theory is that certain scents and tones effect women, also. A nice smelling guy with a low, manly voice has the best chance.

[Salamander]

Nice enough but I don’t like “waxed” men.

[Salamander]

You forgot to mention the full body waxing.

Bleah.

[ottbmare]

You’re right. Hate that. What kind of metro waxes off his natural God-given hair?

[ottbmare]

My theory is that certain scents and tones effect women, also. A nice smelling guy with a low, manly voice has the best chance.

Has the best chance with me, too. But only if it's his own natural nice smell, not something he bought.

There's a theory that women sense in their vomeronasal organ whether a man's immune system is complementary to generate offspring with maximal resistance to infectious disease. All I know is, some men just smell right and some don't.