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.
That makes perfect sense if “ogling” is driven purely by an underlying biological imperative to reproduce.
It doesn’t explain why both sexes find butts so compelling, though, lol.
Well dear the reason I look at other women is in my jeans, I mean genes.
It’s pretty simple, actually. They eyes dart before the brain has time to think. Cleavage, for example. When the eye sees it in the visual periphery, it becomes an automatic priority. It relates to Freud, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id, being the simplest and most basic function of the brain, reacts first, and the eyes dart toward the cleavage. The ego and superego take longer to react, and are farther removed from the brain stem itself. By the time the new signal reaches the eye, the damage has already been done.
I’ll try running that one by Mrs. JohnnyP next time.
“Why Men Ogle Women?”
Apple bottom booty?
"Oh boy! CANDY!!!"
It’s called hormones. And they need a study for this?
I like looking at anything pleasing to the eyes. I like looking at attractive men over derelicts. I prefer a mountain meadow over a garbage dump. I prefer a beautiful sunset over a smog filled sky.
It’s normal.
There doesn’t need to be a reason beyond that.
LOL!! That’s funny....
Now. Some men are boob men and some men are butt men. :-)
Please explain this term.
To "cleave" has two opposite meanings. It means to stick together; it also means to split apart.
Are the eyes looking at how two things stick together, or how they are split apart?
Post of the day! lol
Finally a study that produced believable results!
Well knock me over with a feather!
BECAUSE... SCIENCE!
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