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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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1 posted on 06/26/2013 11:04:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
This just in: Men like looking at women! Film at 11.


2 posted on 06/26/2013 11:05:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: nickcarraway

Why Men Ogle Women?

Boobs!


3 posted on 06/26/2013 11:07:56 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“This just in: Men like looking at women! Film at 11.”

LOL should be in “Breaking News” :)


4 posted on 06/26/2013 11:09:06 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ladies: if you don’t see him sneaking a glance every now and then, assume that you’re a beard; but if he acts on his ogling, he’s still a caveman who can’t control his biology. Ditch him.


5 posted on 06/26/2013 11:09:37 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

At least as startling and impacting as the typical “Fox News Alert.”


6 posted on 06/26/2013 11:10:32 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Morgana

On Fox News it would be in breaking news, with exhibits A through ZZ.


7 posted on 06/26/2013 11:14:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana; Slings and Arrows

This is ‘Hard’ news. ;-)


8 posted on 06/26/2013 11:14:34 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: FredZarguna

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

The primary subject of the article is that dudes like different hot chicks while tha’ ladies prefer the same ole dude due to familiarity.

This study should have been my thesis at the Bud Light Institute.


9 posted on 06/26/2013 11:14:55 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana
A fully accredited educational institution, no doubt.

In a related study, male and female Alzheimer's patients found repeated images of the same hot person just as hot as the first viewing.

10 posted on 06/26/2013 11:17:56 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Separated by a common language.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
It is amazing to realize how much money is wasted to verify the obvious.
11 posted on 06/26/2013 11:19:45 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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By the logic of the experiment, men ought to find much-photographed stars such as Rihanna a complete turn-off.

I find that she is indeed a turn-off.

12 posted on 06/26/2013 11:23:09 PM 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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To: nickcarraway

The statists will argue that these guys need to be sent to re-education camps (until they learn to ogle other men).


13 posted on 06/26/2013 11:23:45 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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14 posted on 06/26/2013 11:24:05 PM PDT by llevrok (We are in a new Cold War. At home.)
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Uhmmmmm, we ogle them because they are hot and their inability to make any sense usually results in makeup sex.

Just guessing...


15 posted on 06/26/2013 11:24:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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16 posted on 06/26/2013 11:25:46 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Morgana

Where are the mods when we need them?


17 posted on 06/26/2013 11:30:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: FredZarguna
At least as startling and impacting as the typical “Fox News Alert.”

Ought to be worth a headline at World Net Daily.

18 posted on 06/26/2013 11:30:54 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: Kartographer

http://www.instantrimshot.com/


19 posted on 06/26/2013 11:31:53 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: Buffalo Head

Captain Obvious has to eat too.


20 posted on 06/26/2013 11:32:44 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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