It's Official

She's hot!



Skin deep for men and in the eye of the beholder for women?

A study by psychologists from Wake Forest University found men are much more likely to come to a consensus when defining what they find attractive in youthful members of the opposite sex... i.e. slender & seductive. Appearing confident works, too.

Women showed a more diverse range of responses, with some rating particular men very attractive while other women found the same men not attractive at all.

Researcher Dustin Wood polled 4000 men and women, aged 18 to more than 70, on how attractive they found the subjects of a range of photographs of people of the opposite sex aged 18 to 25.

The researchers said the findings had implications for further understanding eating disorders and why women feel greater pressures to conform to a perception of physical attractiveness. And although men don't have the same pressure to conform to a certain look, they do face greater competition given more men will be attracted to the same women.

The study found our attitudes about potential mates changed with age, as older people were more likely to find people attractive if they were smiling... Older people do place a value on still having teeth.

Remember it was fantasyland, based on reactions to photos, not real human interaction.