Men Agree Who's Hot, Women Don't

livescience ^ | 30 June 2009 | Jeanna Bryner,

[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.

[JoeProBono]

[MaxMax]

Oh now come on, you all agree I'm hot

[Chet 99]

[John123]

But the ladies are less in agreement over what makes for a hot guy

I think this is very true... Men are visual while the females are more about how the guy makes them feel... this explains why a bald, skinny guy like me can get girlfriends...

[BerniesFriend]

HOT:

NOT HOT:

any questions??

[elpinta]

That pic is very, very unsettling... just can’t go to sleep after that (perhaps ever)!

[nathanbedford]

I do not know why these researchers turned to 1300 heterosexual men to determine what women are hot, they don't do that at beauty pageants.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

........

[JoeProBono]

[Straight Vermonter]

Woman's idea of a hot guy:

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

...HOT...HOT....HOT

[BerniesFriend]

hey..that pic is phony..she is not wearing her wedding ring..and that office plant is available in Alaska..duhhhh..

[BerniesFriend]

or NOT available..blew the joke..damn..

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[JoeProBono]

[yield 2 the right]

Oh my eyes!

[BenLurkin]

Thin and seductive......yeah,like Amy Winehouse!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I disagree. If the one on the left is a leftist/liberal and the ones on the right are conservative, the ones on the right are far hotter than the one on the left.

[reagan_fanatic]

Oh,man was Sophie ever HOT.

Excuse me while I wait for a little while before I stand up.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[JoeProBono]

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[proudtobeanamerican1]

It’s not a how a guy looks, but how he looks at you.....

[dr_lew]

But it also means more competition for the hottest chicks, scientists say.

Well sure, but if some young fellow lets his eye fall fondly on a lass who is a little odd or homely ( as he thinks, ) and so calculates that his attentions will be long missed and therefore welcome, he's more than likely to find that he is but one new member of a club ... and science be damned.

[JoeProBono]

Amy Winehouse

[Covenantor]

1. Why would you post a picture that has been proven to photoshopped during the campaign? Especially when the Governor is much more fit than the “borrowed body”

2. And why, oh why would you post one with a friggin air rifle when she can and does handle the real thing.

Sheesh

[proudtobeanamerican1]

What’s hot about that pic?

They are all blowing?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Oh,man was Sophie ever HOT. Excuse me while I wait for a little while before I stand up.

Yes....she has the same effect on me.

[JoeProBono]

BETTER?

[berdie]

A most excellent point!

[SeaHawkFan]

http://www.sjacob.dk/how_to_spot_a_rich_guy.jpg

[Covenantor]

ROFLMOL

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[Daffynition]

HOT:

NOT HOT:

[Costumed Vigilante]

What’s hot about that pic? They are all blowing?

Let me try to convey this in one simple phrase:

"This one time, at band camp..."

A verbis ad verbera

[goat granny]

That looks mighty sexy.....:o)

[bannie]

Yea, John...but you’re still visual; so you still want a hot chick.

;-)

[bannie]

HAHAHA! Maybe that’s the bait for some women; but I’ll bet that your wife and I both agree that it’s not true for all.

;-)

[Straight Vermonter]

Mrs SV settled for a pretty thin wallet so I guess she saw something else she liked.

[bannie]

I think that most women are really lookin’ for love. I think we’d rather have a partnership than a sugar daddy.

[JoeProBono]

[TSgt]

Sorry, someone already posted Helen and this was the second worst I could do...My father-in-law calls her the missing link.

[JoeProBono]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[Daffynition]

HOT:

NOT HOT:

[AlaskaErik]

HOT

[Question_Assumptions]

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.

[Niteflyr]

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.

This is simple....with women it is really the size of his wallet that counts....