Posted on 05/26/2011 11:54:03 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A man walks into a bar, catches a girl's eye, and immediately looks gloomy, moody and averts his eyes. The woman is overcome with sexual attraction. Not your usual love story but maybe a more realistic one. Turns out, a winning smile isn't the way to a woman's heart; men who swagger and look gloomy are more likely to set pulses raising.
That's according to Jessica Tracy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, who asked more than 1000 adults to rate the sexual attractiveness of hundreds of photos of the opposite sex.
The images showed men and women in various displays of happiness, with big smiles and puffed out chests or shameful glances, lowered heads and averted eyes.
In an interview with UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, co-author Alec Beall, also at British Columbia said: "We did not ask participants if they thought these targets would make a good boyfriend or wife - we wanted their gut reactions on carnal, sexual attraction."
The study found that women were not attracted to smiling, happy men, preferring those who looked proud and powerful or moody and ashamed.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Life is hard enough. Without a sense of humour it would be even harder. Imho, a compassionate man who has the ability to laugh is an ideal partner in life.
In my younger days, I was a bouncer at a biker bar. (I'll wait for the synchros to spin in prior to that shift.) Okay then. The girls liked the local gang, and the alpha types, but it was the 'Fonz' types that they all admired, even if they didn't admit it.
You're right (and it holds true in yup fern bars too). The guys admired cup size and women who didn't interrupt. After all, it was a biker bar, and there were important biker goins-on going on. I just made sure the dancers didn't get hurt and the bar didn't burn down. I can guarantee you, I'm only alive because I can make people smile (well, and block a punch out of the corner).
Okay, I'm done being silly. I'm going to go sit on the front stoop and throw tennis balls at the blue healer, as I do every night, but tonight, I'm going to be serious and sullen... and just wait for the girls to show up. Yah, that's it. Then I'm going to retain an attorney (or call my niece) to sue the author for emotional distress. Maybe a class action...
Is that where you met Pete?
1. Grumble a lot.
2. Attract wimmins.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Oh yeah, and high IQ is a huge aphrodisiac, according to the late Marilyn Monroe. She even said that Albert Einstein was the sexiest man she ever met. And she was only divorced three times or so, twice from men of ordinary intelligence, once from Arthur Miller. ;’)
Cheers!
Moody men don’t need to. It’s in our genes. So to speak. :)
Some of us “Bad Boys” keeps everyone in the dark. :^)
What?
Dang, I should have women all over me.
Intriguing......>:-]
Nope. That's a few years prior. He's always been sullen until he comes over here... at that point, he becomes a certified Monty Python silly person. The chicks dig him! Who da man? He da man!
Space-time foam.
Within this foam are objects - wormholes - tiny passageways between two points in space and time. The secret to building a time machine is to stabilize the space-time foam long enough to make one of these worm holes permanent, and the way we do that is by subjecting it to ENORMOUS amounts of energy. This makes the girls grin... and there you are, step 4, profit.
I had a baby faced, happy, great sense of humor, pretty boy first husband.
He nearly beat me to death.
My brooding sullen, gloomy guy will beat to death anybody who even looks at me wrong.
He laughs a lot...but it always scares people when he does.
Been together 18 years and hopefully, he’ll live long enough that we’ll be together another 18.
My pedo uncle reminds everybody of Alan Alda, he’s so funny and charming.
Maybe that’s why I don’t trust ‘funny guys’.
I think I’m in love.
;D
Wanna bet money on that?
Yes, ma’am...you nailed that sucker right on the head.
You didn’t address your #73 to me but may I just say that I’m glad you are in a better situation now?
Now back to my regularly-scheduled moodiness. :)
Once again, wise beyond your years.
Uh oh. I’m most attracted to the happy men. What’s wrong with me?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.