Posted on 06/26/2013 11:04:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yes dear, I am eyeing her up its in my genes: Scientists offer explanation for why men ogle women
If you catch your mans eyes wandering when a beautiful stranger walks past, dont blame him its 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 Scotlands 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.
It always is. Seems women don’t exist on FR by the way the men post. In fact they kind of assume everyone is going to be a man so never think of moderating their posts. Thus the objectification of the women. As if we’re not even here or people as they are. It’s a weird twilight-zone feeling.
BECAUSE WE CAN!
“Are the eyes looking at how two things stick together, or how they are split apart?”
They are together, yet they are separate.
And I’m possibly getting a little too philosophical about this. :)
You’ll put your eye out.
Yes, it is. I could go on, but it would just be depressing.
In fact, I really missed out once in college because this guy was hitting on me at a gathering of the grad students in my department, and I just didn't have any interest in him. By the time I got to know him well enough to realize he was pretty cute and very interesting, he'd moved on and found someone. I was like "Well doesn't that just figure."
“years) before I realize a man is attractive”
Sometimes that’s because they’re NOT attractive younger. Even 20yos can look thin and wan (and I’m not talking about the vegetarians) but 15 years later they’ve buffed out much better, even the head/face.
Call me a pig but *this*,for example,would deserve a quick glimpse from me.
I love the one where Horneye asks Galdys “do you believe in the hereafter?” she says “yes” and he say “then you know what I’m here after”.
dark sunglasses
I agree. Men are most attractive in their 30s.
LOL, ok fair enough. :)
Just because I’m bug-eyed staring with my tongue hanging out and hyperventilating does NOT mean that I’m ogling. It could be a heart attack. Well, it could be both.
bttt
Why Men Ogle Women?
Boobs!
Boobs are buttocks displaced upward. (Desmond Morris in `The Naked Ape’)
Not necessarily. Some of us have gotten very good at not getting caught.
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