We weren’t surprised that women found physically strong men attractive … what did surprise us was just how powerful the effect was,” said Aaron Sell, a senior lecturer at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, who led the work. “Our data couldn’t find even a single woman that preferred weaker or feminine male bodies.
But there is hope
“Our results suggest that even if you’re a bit overweight, looking strong can buffer that. Basically, being a strong, fat guy is OK, which I think would bring comfort to many.”
The biggest surprise here is the Guardian actually had an article on this. Whether they would do it in 2020 though.
But either way, the results are not surprising.
Doesn’t surprise me. I see a pattern to what women date and it’s all athletic type men. I do not know how families are maintained though because athletic people do not necessarily make good family materials.
Perhaps this is why most marriages ends in divorce.
I think religious people tend to buck the instinctual trend but in the long term religious people who marry have the same divorce rate as the general public. Even though they claim to reject divorce.
The OP study was also only using university students (both the pictures used and women who were asked). Who’s really looking for a potential father of their future children at that age?
Good point, but I do think that the smartest women in uni are, in addition to taking care of their own future job-wise, looking precisely for a potential father of their future children.
It’s a female mating strategy millennia old (at that age, not at uni per se), and I suspect it won’t change anytime soon.
Lol is this a revelation? All my female friends overwhelmingly swipe for athletic looking guys. Not to say they don’t swipe for guys with more than 1% body fat, but there’s def way less hesitation if you look like Chris Hemsworth.
Male or female, unfortunately we’ve been marketed and conditioned since birth a certain level of vanity and preconceived notions of attractiveness. Social media ain’t real, but the effects of it sure are.
But how do we know that the raters were those women? Also, just picking between torso pictures doesn’t really equal picking your future mate, which they have also added at the end of their study (in different words of course!).
I also wonder if they would get the same result if they used say, Taiwanese University students, so it’s not really conclusive. I liked reading their article though! I’m also a bit interested in one of the other studies they mentioned regarding the faces, I want to see who did the rating then.
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