Posted by Tamar on July 31, 2005, at 16:57:22
In reply to Re: Lott: Q on getting attracted to older, wiser men, posted by Jakeman on July 30, 2005, at 1:53:43
> Pardon me for interjecting something here.
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> Does't the new age nice guy have a place?Now there’s a good question!
A few months ago I was reading some stuff in evolutionary psychology journals. I was quite interested in what people find attractive about other people. Apparently, men are particularly attracted to women with a certain hip-waist ratio. Women seem to think men prefer very slim women, whereas in fact men seem to prefer more rounded women. But there hasn’t been much research into women’s attraction to men. What little I could find seemed to indicate that women like men who are taller, older and richer. This seems to fit with the idea of women often being attracted to ‘authority figures’.
However, despite the trends researchers find, it’s almost impossible to take account of individual preferences. We have our own particular reasons for finding certain people attractive.
It’s a cliché that women prefer b*stards, but to be honest I’d rather have a decent man any day of the week (and in my youth I often did!).
So yes, nice guys definitely have a place. But sometimes we women kiss a lot of frogs before we notice the prince.
Tamar
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