Washington Post: Women rate strongest men the most attractive.

[Koba St]

Women rate the strongest men as the most attractive, study finds

Heterosexual male gym rats, rejoice! Women, when asked in a study to judge photos of men's bodies, rated the strongest men as the most attractive. Height and leanness were appealing attributes, too, but strength played an outsize role in the ratings of a man's torso, per a report published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

No one will be surprised by the idea that strong men are more attractive,” said study author Aaron Lukaszewski, an evolutionary psychologist at California State University at Fullerton. “It's no secret that women like strong, muscular guys.”

Lukaszewski and his co-authors created a photo database of shirtless or tanktop-wearing male college students, all from the University of California at Santa Barbara. The men's heads were digitally obscured. Dunsworth described the overall effect as “faceless, soulless blockheads” above naked torsos. “It’s nice to see evolutionary psychology treating everybody like pieces of meat,” she said, “not just women.”

The study authors described a strong body as a signal, one our ancient ancestors would have understood: This is a healthy individual with a hearty immune system, the ripped body suggests, someone who can devote calories to building muscle rather than fighting off germs. Strength was also an “indicator of one’s ability to provide material and social benefits,” Lukaszewski said. In this interpretation, a strong man has value as a potential protector of women and children and is desired by other men as an ally.

Be a flabby fat b*stard and wonder why you can’t get laid brehs

 

[JoJomac]

Definitely going to post some gym pr's on Instagram now.

 

[Brosef]

Under 6ft, built dudes rejoice

Tall lanky guys are the worst... Like how you genetically gifted but too lazy to put on some muscle.

 

[GodsPerspective]

Women rate the strongest men as the most attractive, study finds









Be a flabby fat b*stard and wonder why you ain’t getting laid brehs

It helps but you don't have to be fit to pull. I've seen straight midgets (not actually) pull. Like dudes who were 5'3. They didn't pull the baddest but the girls were cute. If you've got game you got game

 

[patscorpio]

im not surprised at all..all women love a physically strong man...any women saying less are lying to themselves

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

It helps but you don't have to be fit to pull. I've seen straight midgets (not actually) pull. Like dudes who were 5'3. They didn't pull the baddest but the girls were cute. If you've got game you got game

Here we go

 

[GodsPerspective]

Here we go

Here we go with what?

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Be suprised by common sense brehs

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

I'm strong in character tho trust me

Spoiler

 

[Karb]

I'm strong in character tho trust me

Spoiler

 

[GreenGhxst]

So the real alpha males are you fat fukks who can finesse yourselves into some p*ssy

 

[How Sway?]

Lol duh

A lot of these young girls(of all races) like Bean pole ass dudes though

 

[Carlton Banks]

Then why I see all these bytches going for the migos / future types???

I've noticed a huge surge of women into the Travis Scott/Future/Migos type

 

[Auger]

Under 6ft, built dudes rejoice

Tall lanky guys are the worst... Like how you genetically gifted but too lazy to put on some muscle.

Did you read the article referenced in that article?

It states the women also have a preference for tall slim men too

Additional analyses showed that tallness and leanness were also favoured, and, along with estimates of physical strength, accounted for 80% of men's bodily attractiveness.

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1869

 

[Karb]

Women love powerlifters?

Bodybuilders are not that strong tbh