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What makes a man attractive? Hint: Look at his limbs
Women prefer a man with legs that are about half his height, according to previous research; scientists believe that is an evolutionary result of women wanting to choose only healthy men. Legs that are too short, for example, have been linked to type 2 diabetes. But other proportions, such as arm length to body height or whether the elbow and knee divide a limb in half, can also relate to a person's health. Do they influence women's views as well?
To answer this, researchers collected average body proportions from roughly 9000 men in the U.S. military and used them to create computer-generated images of male models (pictured). The scientists made the model's arms and legs slightly longer or shorter, and then asked more than 800 heterosexual U.S. women to rank each model's attractiveness.
How long the model's arms were relative to his height didn't seem to matter [open, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171790] [DX], the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science. And women cared only a little about how the elbow or knee divided a limb. But as seen in previous work, women noticed if the legs made up more or less than half his height—and they didn't like it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 20 2018, @02:55PM (5 children)
For sure, you can't get close enough to her for the scent to have any effect, if you look like some kind of monster, or freak of nature. But, I've read time and time again that smell is the primary lure for women.
Search engines get more disappoint all the time - a search for "women attracted to smell" gives me more adverts for various colognes and/or pheromones than anything. After manipulating the search a couple of times, I landed on this page, which offers at least a semi-serious thought about the attractiveness of men's smell - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-434685/Why-smell-mans-armpit-turn-on.html [dailymail.co.uk]
This page supports the first link - http://www.girlschase.com/content/having-male-scent-fills-women-lust [girlschase.com] Plus, it offers a source - https://patents.google.com/patent/US7067162?oq=Al+Hirsch+vaginal+bloodflow [google.com] which in turn leads to more sources, for those who wish to pursue them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:00PM
ah yes, Runaway stinking up the joint again...{grin}
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:19PM (2 children)
I've also read, here and there over the decades, that smell also communicates immunological (and almost certainly microbiome) profiles and that some attractiveness hinges on compatibility there... Good luck digging that out of Google.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:06PM
He uses DuckDuckGo, you insensitive clod.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @03:49AM
Google sucks nowadays. Good thing keywords like MHC still work (I've been having problems with Google ignoring my keywords or using what it stupidly thinks are synonyms and then when I switch to verbatim mode they seem to pick a very different ranking scheme).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex_and_sexual_selection#The_relationship_between_olfaction_and_MHC [wikipedia.org]
See also: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-pills-affect-womens-taste/ [scientificamerican.com]
So women go on the pill and find a guy they like, go off the pill and don't like the guy as much :).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @12:09AM
Search engines get more disappoint[ing] all the time
Sounds like you're avoiding the one with the largest database.
I call that "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
The thing I remembered was pheromone meetups. [google.com]
N.B. The top 2 hits for me get it completely wrong with "sweaty".
The guy washes up with non-scented products, puts on a t-shirt, and goes to bed.
In the morning, he puts the shirt in a zip-lock.
Repeat for several nights then bring the bag with the t-shirt to the meetup party.
The chicks sniff the shirts and if a gal has a positive reaction to 1, she can be directed to the corresponding dude.
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