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Are Muscular Men More Attractive? :

Jul 11, 2007

Muscles. Hot or not?

UCLA professor David Frederick and colleagues have asked: Why is Muscularity Sexy? Conclusion:

[...] these studies suggest that menā€™s physical features are related not only to womenā€™s expressed preferences for mates but also to menā€™s and womenā€™s past mate choices and sex behaviors.

NOTE: Despite the many media reports - we need to understand that the subjects of the study were male and female undergraduates (aged 18-25) living in California, USA. Extrapolating that to all men and women everywhere is foolish.

One of the studies interviewed 99 male undergraduates about their sexual histories, and, to be honest - can you really believe they didn't "talk up" their exploits?

This fascinating paper actually includes 6 studies and is difficult to summarize. Here I will focus on just one of the studies:

141 college women aged around 20 looked at 6 computer generated images of men (created with MyVirtualModel.com ).
Note that only the images were shown to the women - not the labels (e.g. brawny, slender, etc).
The women rated the images against four factors: sexual desirability, commitment, physical dominance (over other males), and volatility (e.g. bad temper).

Okay, deep-breath guys...

Attractiveness, sexual desirability? The built and toned guys came tops. The chubby guy was bottom of the heap. Brawny guy still desirable but not as much as built and toned guy.

Physical Dominance? Brawny and built were tops, the slender guy bottom.

Commitment? Chubby guy voted the best, brawny and built the worst.

Volatility? Slender guy the least volatile, with brawny and built the most volatile.

The heads were deleted (by the study authors) to remove any ethnic or racial clue.