Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Better Orgasms. Better World.
It was so refreshing to know that, for women, there IS a formula for the ultimate male sex partner (we all know the formula for men thanks to porn). So here's the recipe according to psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss:
We like them Tall.
Studies consistently find that women consider tall men to be attractive. In analyses of personal ads, 80 per cent of women state they want to meet a man who is 6ft or taller. Two studies also found that taller-than-average men tend to have a greater number of live-in girlfriends and more children, confirming their popularity for romance and reproduction.
They have to smell right.
A woman's sense of smell reaches a peak around the time of her ovulation, the 24-hour window -during the monthly menstrual cycle in which she can become pregnant.
The genes responsible for fighting off disease-causing bacteria and viruses are found in a group of genes called the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC.
Different people have various versions of these genes - and it turns out that women can benefit in two ways from mating with men whose MHC genes are dissimilar to their own.
Gotta have the V-shaped torso.
Studies of mate preferences reveal that women desire strong, muscular, athletic men for long-term partnerships as well as for sexual liaisons.
Most women also show a distinct preference for a V-shaped torso - broad shoulders relative to hips. They are also attracted to a lean stomach combined with a muscular (but not muscle-bound) upper torso.
Give us a rugged face with a square jaw.
In a series of scientific studies, women found square-jawed, masculine faces to be the sexiest and the most attractive for a casual sexual encounter.
But they judged somewhat less masculine faces to be more attractive for a long-term relationship.
And we want a man with a deep voice.
Recent investigations show that whether women are looking for a short-term or long-term relationship is critical in how they choose among men's voices.
Evolutionary anthropologist David Puts obtained voice recordings of 30 men attempting to persuade a woman to go out on a romantic date.
Then 142 heterosexual women listened to the recordings and rated each man's attractiveness for a short-term sexual encounter and a long-term committed relationship.
Though women said the deeper voices were more attractive in both mating contexts, they dramatically preferred the deeper voices when considering them as prospects for purely sexual, short-term encounters.
Moreover, women in the fertile phase of their ovulation cycle showed the strongest sexual attraction to men with deep voices.
Ugh
We thats just depressing, and I have nothing more i'd like to add than that.
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24 - M - Critical Relativist and Feminist (Equalist) - Canada
I'm odd
Don't be depressed Joelface. I don't really understand the results of the survey, but then I've always felt that there was something about "being a woman" that I never quite understood. I am female, but I've never liked the big, hunky, hairy, square-jaw thing. If I had to describe my gut feeling about an "ideal", I'd like a metrosexual; a skinny, weedy, girly-man. (I use those terms as compliments, btw.) I suppose I only ever thought about what "my type" was, because I needed a response to the question. Truth is, I don't have a type. I loved the baby-faced guys' baby-faces as much as the one guy's mustache, the long black hair as much as the fuzzy crewcut, the skinny boyish chest as much as the furry one, and the 5'7" guy as much as the 6'4" guy. If I liked him, I might even find a square-jawed muscle-guy handsome. I have NEVER wanted kids or marriage, and I never went looking for a "boyfriend", (although I've wanted monogamous LTRs with those I liked), but when I happened across certain people, I just got into them, and the way they looked became all magical to me. I don't have a very good sex drive, so perhaps that's why I can't relate to the majority of humans. Maybe that's why I don't go for that he-man thing. I actually find it a bit intimidating. I don't look like a beautiful woman according to TV and magazines, and that depresses me like fuck too, especially coz with my age, it's only going to get worse (lol). I often feel like someone who goes with me must be "settling for what they can get", because they'd really prefer the perfect barbie doll with great big pouting lips and a teeny-tiny body. Nature has kindly made sure that I won't add to the gene pool, however, seeing as I have no drive to procreate, and reading the survey, I suppose I can see why! So I don't mean to be a perv, but I find the idea of a 24-year-old critcal thinking Canadian feminist who reads a serious website on womens' sexuality UTTERLY APPEALING! I bet you're gorgeous. Your loving partner is going to find you the most beautiful man in the world, even if you don't fit the stereotype that supposedly most people want.
I'm Odd: I see nothing wrong
I'm Odd: I see nothing wrong with the way you feel, and I also believe that there are quite a few men like your preferred type. Especially in larger cities. Finding such men can be a bit tricky, because that type is not encouraged to be outgoing.
The Barbie-doll type revolts me. Borderline anorexic. Doesn't stretch her mind. Thinks that because she is beautiful in the stereotypical way, doesn't
have to work at relationships.
If all women agreed on what the ideal man was, there would be a lot more women mudering women because there simply would not be enough ideal men to go around. Diversity of erotic opinion makes civilised life possible.
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