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DISCLAIMER: I'm not claiming this study is perfect mainly due to the nature of self reported opinion recorded as opposed to something more objective being measured but there certainly some truth to it
It's no surprise that feminine men are not very attractive to women in general and masculinity is an attractive trait. There is a misconception though that extreme masculinity is what is what will yield the highest success rate.
Iris Holzleitner, a postdoc at Glasgow University, recently published the most comprehensive study yet of how women differ in their preferences for male masculinity according to circumstance.
500 women for an internet study. These women rated the attractiveness of a set of male faces that had been manipulated to appear more feminine or more masculine. Masculine faces tend to have a more robust jaw, narrower eyes and lips, and a wider nose. In many research studies, volunteers are only asked to compare one feminized with one masculinized face; in Holzleitner’s study, volunteers individually rated faces of varying degrees of masculinity.
Holzleitner found that, generally, women most preferred male faces that were moderately masculine.
Very masculine or feminine faces were less appealing. However, the degree of masculinity a woman preferred in a man’s face depended somewhat on her own characteristics.
>More attractive women were more likely to rate truthfully
For example, compared to women who were exclusively attracted to men, women who were also somewhat attracted to women rated masculine faces less attractive and feminine faces more attractive.
Women who thought they were high in attractiveness >I assume the typical high estrogen phenotype thought they were more attractive didn’t find feminine male faces very attractive at all, but less attractive women rated them moderately appealing. Both self-rated attractive and self-rated unattractive women agreed that moderately masculine men were the most appealing, and that very masculine men were slightly less so.
>very masculine men were still more attractive than moderately feminine men
The conclusion I have drawn from this is that women have a optimal level of masculinity that they report being attracted to. It is best to have a combination of both masculine and feminine traits as opposed to being hyper-masculine to have the highest success rate.
For example the ideal would be somebody like Nick bateman
over the overly masculine phenotype Randy Orton
source:https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/...01712/why-some-women-prefer-more-feminine-man
It's no surprise that feminine men are not very attractive to women in general and masculinity is an attractive trait. There is a misconception though that extreme masculinity is what is what will yield the highest success rate.
Iris Holzleitner, a postdoc at Glasgow University, recently published the most comprehensive study yet of how women differ in their preferences for male masculinity according to circumstance.
500 women for an internet study. These women rated the attractiveness of a set of male faces that had been manipulated to appear more feminine or more masculine. Masculine faces tend to have a more robust jaw, narrower eyes and lips, and a wider nose. In many research studies, volunteers are only asked to compare one feminized with one masculinized face; in Holzleitner’s study, volunteers individually rated faces of varying degrees of masculinity.
Holzleitner found that, generally, women most preferred male faces that were moderately masculine.
Very masculine or feminine faces were less appealing. However, the degree of masculinity a woman preferred in a man’s face depended somewhat on her own characteristics.
>More attractive women were more likely to rate truthfully
For example, compared to women who were exclusively attracted to men, women who were also somewhat attracted to women rated masculine faces less attractive and feminine faces more attractive.
Women who thought they were high in attractiveness >I assume the typical high estrogen phenotype thought they were more attractive didn’t find feminine male faces very attractive at all, but less attractive women rated them moderately appealing. Both self-rated attractive and self-rated unattractive women agreed that moderately masculine men were the most appealing, and that very masculine men were slightly less so.
>very masculine men were still more attractive than moderately feminine men
The conclusion I have drawn from this is that women have a optimal level of masculinity that they report being attracted to. It is best to have a combination of both masculine and feminine traits as opposed to being hyper-masculine to have the highest success rate.
For example the ideal would be somebody like Nick bateman
over the overly masculine phenotype Randy Orton
source:https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/...01712/why-some-women-prefer-more-feminine-man
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