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: 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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