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.
Yep. When I took my job at the U, a neighbor and good friend who is a retired professor told me the secret of a happy, non-contentious life on campus. Mirrored sunglasses.
I have never understood this point of view. Women are welcome to post their favorite pictures so other women could enjoy them, but they rarely do. Nothing is stopping them, and yet they criticize men for posting their favorite pictures. This is an endless source of misunderstandings between the sexes here.
Thank you!!!!!
It’s not our way, I guess.
The main point was how you talk on and on as if it’s just guys night out. Hard to explain precisely, but it’s just as if we aren’t here. Ignored and forgotten. Just sex objects to look at, none to discuss anything about.
WOOF!! Nice Dalmatians :-)
I see your point. I have never participated in those drawn-out conversations, so I can’t promise to refrain in the future. But at least I understand you now..
from Fire Island...?
LOL! Good one!
Years ago at a different job, our one systems analyst called me into the - well, let’s call it a “closet” - that served as our server room. For security purposes, he wanted me to be the babysitter for an outside contractor tech. Hello, Mr. Hotness!
Right before stepping out of the room to return to his desk, the analyst whispered to me, “Don’t hurt ‘im!”
Oh blessya darlin, thank yew!
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