It is in the scent..beware! beware!
"Herr God Herr Lucifer Beware! Beware!
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."
-Sylvia Plath in 'Lady Lazarus'
Plath might just be right, if psychological research is anything to go by. Except that it takes a little more than a puff of ash.
Anyway, psychologist have ascertained that the key factor that sexually attracts women to their male opposites is the symmetrical dimensions of their facial and bodily features. The more balanced your facial features are (if you've that fat lip or that lazy eye and have issues, know you know why) and the more symmetrical your body is (Yes, those abs!), apparently the more sexually attractive you are.
Evolutionary Psychologists have reasoned that the possession of such features present the male subject as someone who has a tendency to be more healthy and as such possessing superior genes.
However, women do not have to see to know, they can sense it - through the scent of the man.
In a recent study, a few men of varying body symmetry were asked to put on clean shirts and to wear them for three days without changing. In other words, the shirt will be stenched with their odor.
Later, a group of women were called into the lab and asked to pour through the shirts left by the men. (In other words, sniff) There were then asked to ascertain who they thought, just solely by the scent alone, who was the most sexually attractive male.
True enough, most of the women selected the shirt which was worn by the man who possessed the most symmetrical bodily features!
Not only that, when asked of their menstrual patterns for that month. It is found that there is a correlation between high ratings for the 'symmetrical' shirt with that of women who were ovulating. In other words, when the woman has a higher tendency to have a child, the greater the attraction to the symmetrical male. Hence, this pattern of correlation point to the earlier evolutionary factor we talked about.
As the prof talked about this, I looked around the room and I saw that the only people laughing were the males. Most of the females just listened on reticently. So, is that tacit acknowledgment of some truth to this? How would males react? I also told a few of of my friends of this finding, and everyone of them made responses that reflect a immediate urgency of heading to the nearest gym and working out to get the much needed toned body.
"Herr God Herr Lucifer Beware! Beware!
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."
-Sylvia Plath in 'Lady Lazarus'
Plath might just be right, if psychological research is anything to go by. Except that it takes a little more than a puff of ash.
Anyway, psychologist have ascertained that the key factor that sexually attracts women to their male opposites is the symmetrical dimensions of their facial and bodily features. The more balanced your facial features are (if you've that fat lip or that lazy eye and have issues, know you know why) and the more symmetrical your body is (Yes, those abs!), apparently the more sexually attractive you are.
Evolutionary Psychologists have reasoned that the possession of such features present the male subject as someone who has a tendency to be more healthy and as such possessing superior genes.
However, women do not have to see to know, they can sense it - through the scent of the man.
In a recent study, a few men of varying body symmetry were asked to put on clean shirts and to wear them for three days without changing. In other words, the shirt will be stenched with their odor.
Later, a group of women were called into the lab and asked to pour through the shirts left by the men. (In other words, sniff) There were then asked to ascertain who they thought, just solely by the scent alone, who was the most sexually attractive male.
True enough, most of the women selected the shirt which was worn by the man who possessed the most symmetrical bodily features!
Not only that, when asked of their menstrual patterns for that month. It is found that there is a correlation between high ratings for the 'symmetrical' shirt with that of women who were ovulating. In other words, when the woman has a higher tendency to have a child, the greater the attraction to the symmetrical male. Hence, this pattern of correlation point to the earlier evolutionary factor we talked about.
As the prof talked about this, I looked around the room and I saw that the only people laughing were the males. Most of the females just listened on reticently. So, is that tacit acknowledgment of some truth to this? How would males react? I also told a few of of my friends of this finding, and everyone of them made responses that reflect a immediate urgency of heading to the nearest gym and working out to get the much needed toned body.
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