{"id":54996,"date":"2017-12-14T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/?p=54996"},"modified":"2018-05-21T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:22:05","slug":"physical-features-women-attractive-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/physical-features-women-attractive-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Reveals Physical Features Women Find Most Attractive In Men"},"content":{"rendered":"
The latest study has affirmed the old mating game which is – women find fit men with muscular, lean bodies most attractive than wimpy and weak types.<\/p>\n
This was attributed to ancient influences involving the survival benefits of being with a healthy man who can hunt and fight.<\/p>\n
In order to test\u00a0how important physical strength is to men’s bodily attractiveness, scientists showed a group of 160 women photographs of shirtless men and asked for an attractiveness rating.<\/p>\n
Estimated physical strength became the biggest factor which determines how attractive a man was perceived and this accounted for more than 70 percent of men’s bodily attractiveness.<\/p>\n
The results, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, showed that most male bodily attractiveness stems from cues of formidability and physical strength, and that strength increases attractiveness in a linear fashion.<\/p>\n
In other words, it was possible to almost perfectly predict how attractive a man’s body is from three things: how physically strong he looks, how tall he is, and how lean he is.\u00a0Researchers also said looking strong was much more important for man’s attractiveness than being tall or lean.<\/p>\n
According to the lead researcher, Dr Aaron Sell, from Griffith University in Queensland,\u00a0“this effect of height and weight on attractiveness may be due to mate choice mechanisms responding to cues of health, or to the benefits height and lean bodies have in protracted aggression, hunting and other aspects of fighting ability.”<\/p>\n
However, Sell said while the women in their study preferred the strongest bodies, there was a sizeable dataset across many cultures that showed women did not always prefer the strongest looking faces.<\/p>\n