House of Eratosthenes

Interesting. Maybe the feminists have known something the rest of us did not. Or maybe they didn’t, and are just naturally pre-disposed toward being nasty.

Men are drawn to a wider range of women when they are feeling stressed out, according to research into the psychology of sexual attraction.

People are usually attracted to partners with similar facial features to their own, but after a brief but stressful experience, men’s preferences changed to include a wider variety of women, the study found.

Relaxed men who took part in the study rated women on average 14% less appealing if they looked very different from themselves compared with women who looked similar. But a group of stressed men found dissimilar women 9% more attractive.
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In the study, 50 healthy heterosexual male students were divided into two groups. Those in the first group were asked to plunge one arm into a bucket of icy water for three minutes before taking part in the test. Those in the second group were asked to do the same, but with water heated to body temperature.
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Lass-Hennemann said it is highly unlikely that the acute stresses of everyday life can switch someone’s tastes when it comes to choosing a partner, but long-term stress might shift male preferences towards women who are more dissimilar.

So if you’re a wife and you’re getting into middle-age and feeling gravity taking its toll…a little frumpy around the edges. Henpeck your husband if you don’t want him trading in a 40 on a couple of 20’s. Uh, that’s new?

Someone needs to intervene in the decisions about what studies are being done, what they’re supposed to prove, how the grant money is being handed out. Seriously. We needed a study to give women motivation to do more nagging?? Who makes these decisions. We need reform now.

I’ll bet if you give me a few million dollars, I can produce a study that proves wives end up happier when they go way out of their way to make the man in their life happier. Men are less likely to flee the coop when they get handed a frosty mug of beer and a plate of nachos (or vegetables) every evening when they come home from work, and then get taken out for water sports on the weekends with their families. With the wife driving, so the adult refreshments can be enjoyed further. And then some fun in the sack every single morning and every single night. He’ll be, oh, about forty-five percent less likely to leave. Morgan’s study says so.

The data, they prove my theory. I can make some. Cheap. And they’ll be more believable than anything represented above, I think I’m in a position to promise that.

Update: Yesterday, Gerard put up something that fits in well with this theme. Further substantiates it. That theme being one of “happiness begins with men, and radiates outward to others.” When we channel our energies into making the grown-up men all stressed out and miserable, it comes back to bite us in the ass.

Picture’s worth a thousand words…

Wives — those among you looking to spice up your marriage. Greet him at the door with a cold drink wearing nothing but a smile. Do things his way and see what happens. Make him un-stressed.

It’s what my girlfriend does, and I can tell you perhaps the study that is the original subject of this post, has a point to it — her good treatment makes me exceptionally picky about women. Only she will do. You know, call me nuts, but I think that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Bingo.

Of course that means you are an obvious chauvinistic misogynist.

Excuse me, I have to go now and beat my wife into treating me nicely for a change.
- pdwalker | 03/12/2010 @ 09:31

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