Posted on 07/02/2009 7:46:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Thin and seductive, that's what men find attractive in women. But the ladies are less in agreement over what makes for a hot guy, new research finds. The news is good for guys who might think they're not the hottest hunks. But it also means more competition for the hottest chicks, scientists say.
"Men agree a lot more about who they find attractive and unattractive than women agree about who they find attractive and unattractive," said study researcher Dustin Wood, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
The study included more than 1,300 heterosexual men, about 2,700 heterosexual women, about 125 homosexual men and about the same number of homosexual women. The average age of participants was about 28 years old, and ranged from 18 to more than 70.
What men want: Despite another recent study that found modern men are more interested in intelligent, educated women than in decades past, in the new study men tended to base their attractiveness ratings on women's physical features, giving stellar marks to those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive.
What women want: Women showed some preference for thin, muscular men. But they also disagreed over the hotness factor of many men, with some women giving a guy high attractiveness ratings while others scored the same guy as not attractive at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Mrs SV settled for a pretty thin wallet so I guess she saw something else she liked.
I think that most women are really lookin’ for love. I think we’d rather have a partnership than a sugar daddy.
An important point is that heterosexual men and women have different prerogatives of attraction. All varieties of males, not just human males, are generally attracted to the look of “fertility” in females. However, culture determines what they believe “fertility” looks like.
Females, however, have a double prerogative of the type of male they want as a sperm donor, and a male “provider” to help raise her offspring. But this is conflicted. First of all, it is unlikely that when there are many males around, the same one is best for both purposes. So she has to compromise, or cheat.
But from this biological starting ground, it gets a lot more complicated for both men and women.
NOT HOT:
Back during the Clinton administration, there were articles here on Free Republic from the mainstream media about women fantasizing over him and swooning over him so I asked my wife, in case I was missing something, if she found Bill Clinton attractive. The look of disgust that she instantly gave me was priceless.
This is simple....with women it is really the size of his wallet that counts....
Yep women seem so flaky about looks because that is not what is really important to them....while it is very important to men...
Pic of the thread!! LMAO.
I don’t say this often.....but WTF is that Not Hot a picture of?
I never got the infatuation with Slick Willy either! lol excuse the pun!
Terrible Photoshop.
Auditions and training for plowing championship competitions in the middle east.
When I was there, it was commonly [ and unkindly] said, the locals were 300 years behind, working three days a week to catch up.
I don't understand your post or your point?? Do you want to try rewriting it?
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Definitely not!
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