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esearch shows that men, who are looking for a short-term lover, are more interested in a woman's body, but are interested in a women's face, only when they are considering long term relationship.
The premise that a woman's body reveals more insight into her immediate baby-making potential than her face, which is more of a window into her long-term reproductive value, is proving to be correct.
So Ladies, hit the gym, since it's your hot body— and not your winsome face — that guys are after.If you're gunning for a long-term relationship, than this is not for you.
There is a lot of studies and analysis about why a face is attractive or body is beautiful.But the preference for body over face has not been taken up for research so far.This is analyzed now.
The research was done by University of Texas at Austin.
1]Men showed a significant preference for body over face for a short term relationship.
2]Women were more interested about the face for both short term and long term relationship.This makes sense, as men's fertility doesn't decline as rapidly as women's. A man in his old age is capable of getting a women pregnant, so women are not much concerned about men's body.
For the research a group of 375 college students were shown photograph of a person of opposite sex.
Half of group were shown photographs with face and body hidden and asked to rank the images for a potential short term mate.
The other half were shown photographs with either body or face covered and asked to rank them for a potential long term mate.
The Result:When asked to pick one for a one-night stand-51% of guys looked at the body and when asked to pick one for a long term- 75 % of them looked at the face.
WHAT COULD POSSIBELY BE THE REASON.
Haven't we heard this a many times "everything is perfect but her face".What could this mean. Is there, than, that the bodily attractiveness conveys something different than facial attractiveness.The co-author of the research was stimulated by this thought.They feel that the women's face and body do give different clues
For instance, they say, that a women's face might indicate how many baby-making years she has ahead of her.When the skin is smooth and supple, it indicates youth.
A girl at 16 is at the peak of her reproductive potential and by 24 she is at the peak of fertility.So one chooses youth when seeking a long term mate, capable of giving lot of off springs.
On the other hand, a women's body gives different fertility cues.A curvy full featured women is always highly desirable as a short term mate, since there is ample evidence of her being capable to get pregnant.During ovulation the hip to waist ratio decreases.
RAGHU NATRAJAN
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esearch shows that men, who are looking for a short-term lover, are more interested in a woman's body, but are interested in a women's face, only when they are considering long term relationship. The premise that a woman's body reveals more insight into her immediate baby-making potential than her face, which is more of a window into her long-term reproductive value, is proving to be correct.
So Ladies, hit the gym, since it's your hot body— and not your winsome face — that guys are after.If you're gunning for a long-term relationship, than this is not for you.
The research was done by University of Texas at Austin.
1]Men showed a significant preference for body over face for a short term relationship.
2]Women were more interested about the face for both short term and long term relationship.This makes sense, as men's fertility doesn't decline as rapidly as women's. A man in his old age is capable of getting a women pregnant, so women are not much concerned about men's body.
For the research a group of 375 college students were shown photograph of a person of opposite sex.
Half of group were shown photographs with face and body hidden and asked to rank the images for a potential short term mate.
The other half were shown photographs with either body or face covered and asked to rank them for a potential long term mate.
The Result:When asked to pick one for a one-night stand-51% of guys looked at the body and when asked to pick one for a long term- 75 % of them looked at the face.
WHAT COULD POSSIBELY BE THE REASON.
Haven't we heard this a many times "everything is perfect but her face".What could this mean. Is there, than, that the bodily attractiveness conveys something different than facial attractiveness.The co-author of the research was stimulated by this thought.They feel that the women's face and body do give different clues
For instance, they say, that a women's face might indicate how many baby-making years she has ahead of her.When the skin is smooth and supple, it indicates youth.
A girl at 16 is at the peak of her reproductive potential and by 24 she is at the peak of fertility.So one chooses youth when seeking a long term mate, capable of giving lot of off springs.
RAGHU NATRAJAN
