Posted on 09/21/2010 6:34:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
[Study reveals that women's bodies draw the interest of men who want to date, but marriage-seeking men consider women's faces as well.]
As a woman, you might be put off by men checking you out in a bar. Now these lecherous looks might be blamed on an evolutionary tendency. The Telegraph reports on a study from the University of Texas, Austin, that shows that men decide who they want to date in the short-term by looking at women’s bodies. If they are more marriage-inclined, they will also check out her face.
The study took into consideration the reactions of 375 men and women who were asked to decide if they would date a member of the opposite sex based purely on their bodies. Men were asked if they would consider a curvy body or pretty face. Looking at pictures of bodies with faces obscured or faces with bodies obscured, men were exceedingly more likely to go for a woman with a curvy body. But if they were looking to settle down? They would pick a pretty face.
As the Texas study explained, “Both the body and face can provide clues as to a woman's reproductive value and current fertility, but this study revealed men go for bodily cues more when looking for a short-term mate." Further, they found that fertility cues were assessed by considering both a body and a face. A face is thought to convey reproductive value, while a body is thought to convey fertility.
Do women have the same tendencies? Not at all, according to scientists. Women assigned to short term and long term picks all gave priority to a man’s face.
I read something a bit more scientific today. It seems that men are attracted by the smell of a woman when she is ovulating and correctly identify and correlate her smell with her desire for sex at that particular time.
Women also know when a man wants sex by the smell he gives off. Of course it depends on how long he’s been dead.
Only if you split the grant with me:)
Boy, when I was born I must have been missing a strand of genes or two but I never, never thought of a woman in terms of her "reproductive value and current fertility."
Any other Freeper out there have the same orientation?
Then why are do so many men attach themselves to women with bodies that look like a fourteen year-old boy's?
“But we all still love to get that construction guy whistle!”
This woman does not. It’s humiliating to be called out when you’re walking along, minding your own business. It’s also rude. Tacky. Embarrassing.
On the other hand, my son (now age 4), since he was an itty bitty kid in a stroller, will go out of his way to look at an attractive woman. He almost fell out of his stroller at the mall turning to check out a woman in a short skirt and heels. He makes my husband so proud. :)
Only if you split the grant with me:)
What a tease!
Hate butterfaces so tend to look at faces first.
***This woman does not. It’s humiliating to be called out when you’re walking along, minding your own business. It’s also rude. Tacky. Embarrassing***
If you have a 4 year old child, you are probably still relatively young. Like I tell my daughter, youth is fleeting, enjoy it now so you can let go with grace when it’s gone. Trust me, male attention may be embarrassing now but you will miss it when it’s gone.
Those men are gay, so why worry about them.
Those men are gay, so why worry about them.
Cheeks...is there a rosey glow....a hue...
There's a hue.
Cheeks...is there a rosey glow....a hue...
There's a hue.
As odd as it sounds, hair is the first thing I notice - I love long hair! It just enhances the natural beauty of a woman, IMHO. After that, I notice her face - trying to determine whether or not she has a cheerful disposition.
I also notice her arms - slightly muscular is perfect. This tells me whether or not she’s obsessive-compulsive about her body, and tells me a little more about her personality.
Everything else is secondary. I would take a pretty, friendly girl who is plump over a “beautiful” celebrity with a “perfect” body that had no personality every time.
Of course, I’m marriage-minded, so I’m looking for a good mother to my future children.
Stupid Study Ping!
You see, the bag eventually falls off.
They do not mean to imply that one thinks about it consciously.
In a way, that speaks to the concept of fertility also. It suggests youth, and therefore relative health and number of years of expected fertility.
I tell my daughters:
“Men like hips. Boyz play with stix.”
I refer to my teenage son’s girl as a “cow-eyed, square-jawed stick.”
Never fails to crack the daughters up.
Good advice, GrannyAnn!
Bodies deteriorate but cute faces last longer
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