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Girth Theory: Upper body musculature is the main prediction of mating success in men.
Table of contents:
1. Research
2. Tinder experiments
3. Photofeeler experiments
4. Conclusions
1. RESEARCH
Read the study CAREFULLY and remember following outtakes:
- Height was negatively associated with mating success(despite the women saying they prefer taller men, just as with attractiveness)
- Men's short-term attractiveness(rated by the women) was negatively associated with mating success.
- Facial masculinity was slightly negatively associated with slaying (despite women once again saying they liked it in their short term partners).
- Girth was significantly associated with mating success - girth explained as: "We consequently standardized and summed biceps, chest, and shoulder circumference, and weight to produce the composite variable girth"
- Perceived fighting success (rated by other men in the frat) was associated with mating success.
Remember this sentence from the authors:
"Nevertheless, perhaps women rate men's sexual attractiveness differently from how they ultimately choose. For example, attractiveness ratings may not adequately capture women's differential resistance to men's seduction attempts."
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> Interestingly, the researchers also asked men about their self-esteem. Maybe muscular men simply feel better about themselves. This higher-self esteem could explain their higher sexual success. But the evidence didn’t support this. Muscular men, regardless of their self-esteem, had more sexual partners.
>In the study, researchers recorded short videos of 157 different men. Next, another group of men watched these videos. Researchers asked them a question about each of the men in the videos: “How likely is it that this man would win a physical fight with another man?” They used a scale ranging from “extremely likely” to “extremely unlikely.”
>A group of women also viewed the videos. They responded to a question about each of the men: “How sexually attractive is this man?” They used a scale ranging from “extremely unattractive” to “extremely attractive.”
>Eighteen months later, the men in the videos completed a questionnaire asking about their sexual history over the 18 months. How tough a guy looked to men predicted his reported mating success better than how attractive he looked to women. The researchers concluded, “Men with higher physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, reported higher quantitative mating success.”
These findings converge with two more ecologically valid results from two studies in small scale societies. In one Western African population, men involved in traditional ritual fights (wrestling) had a higher number of offspring, but were not especially preferred by local women (Llaurens, Raymond, & Faurie, 2009). In another traditional society, men's success in turtle hunting predicted earlier onset of reproduction and higher reproductive success, but again did not seem to be valued by women (Smith, Bird, & Bird, 2003).
Across 91 studies, bodily masculinity was predictive of men's mating and reproductive success
As the only trait in our analysis that is consistently (and most strongly) correlated with fitness outcomes across populations, body masculinity is the only trait we can conclude appears to be under present selection in naturally fertile populations [...] Since traits such as strength and muscularity are associated with formidability, this finding lends support to the male-male competition hypothesis
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According to a study by UCLA, muscle-bound men report almost 3 times as many sexual partners as men without a muscular physique
Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness.
Contrary to popular theories of men's physical attractiveness, there was no evidence of a nonlinear effect; the strongest men were the most attractive in all samples.
The authors of the study also found that that there was no statistically significant portion of the female sample that had a preference for weaker looking men when evaluating male bodily attractiveness.
Weight is unattractive after controlling for how strong a man looks...this is consistent with the hypothesis that women's mate choice mechanisms respond to muscle mass positively but large stores of body fat negatively.
2. TINDER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the Tinder results of two buff dudes, none of them facially graceful. We will find out how well a muscle-bound body does in online dating.
-The first buff dude got +99 likes in less than 72 hrs (https://archive.is/E1WZQ)
-The second buff dude got +99 likes in 28 hrs (https://archive.is/7IKtM)
This means that, even though onlide dating is about female choice, and none of the profiles were facially appealling, they got carried by their bodies. Therefore, you can reap the benefits of the Girth Theory through online dating as well, it's not limited to real life enviroments.
3. PHOTOFEELER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the results of buff and ottermode dudes on Photofeeler, none of them facially appealing.
We will find out how much a muscle-bound body adds to your overall attractiveness.
The first buff dude got a score of 8.0
The second buff dude got a score of 7.5
The first ottermode dude got a score of 7.8
The second ottermode dude got a score of 8.1
As we can see, there were no significant differences between the ratings of the buff and ottermode bodies.
Besides, all of them got their attractiveness boosted by their bodies (they instantly got into the top 20-25% of men) and, as they all got relatively high scores, this means their physiques were alluring to a significant portion of women, not to a small subset of women who crave muscle-bound men above everything else.
4. CONCLUSIONS
In real life, the main predictor of mating succes is upper body musculature, not facial looks. Moreover, upper body musculature significantly boosts your attractiveness, to the point that upper body musculature efectively allows you to compete with other men in online dating. Lastly, upper body musculature is not a zero sum game, so you can have a smaller, yet still muscle-bound body, and still reap the benefits of the Girth Theory.
Table of contents:
1. Research
2. Tinder experiments
3. Photofeeler experiments
4. Conclusions
1. RESEARCH
Read the study CAREFULLY and remember following outtakes:
- Height was negatively associated with mating success(despite the women saying they prefer taller men, just as with attractiveness)
- Men's short-term attractiveness(rated by the women) was negatively associated with mating success.
- Facial masculinity was slightly negatively associated with slaying (despite women once again saying they liked it in their short term partners).
- Girth was significantly associated with mating success - girth explained as: "We consequently standardized and summed biceps, chest, and shoulder circumference, and weight to produce the composite variable girth"
- Perceived fighting success (rated by other men in the frat) was associated with mating success.
Remember this sentence from the authors:
"Nevertheless, perhaps women rate men's sexual attractiveness differently from how they ultimately choose. For example, attractiveness ratings may not adequately capture women's differential resistance to men's seduction attempts."
5 Reasons Both Women and Men Care About Big Muscles
2. Women appreciate them; men are intimidated by them.
> Interestingly, the researchers also asked men about their self-esteem. Maybe muscular men simply feel better about themselves. This higher-self esteem could explain their higher sexual success. But the evidence didn’t support this. Muscular men, regardless of their self-esteem, had more sexual partners.
>In the study, researchers recorded short videos of 157 different men. Next, another group of men watched these videos. Researchers asked them a question about each of the men in the videos: “How likely is it that this man would win a physical fight with another man?” They used a scale ranging from “extremely likely” to “extremely unlikely.”
>A group of women also viewed the videos. They responded to a question about each of the men: “How sexually attractive is this man?” They used a scale ranging from “extremely unattractive” to “extremely attractive.”
>Eighteen months later, the men in the videos completed a questionnaire asking about their sexual history over the 18 months. How tough a guy looked to men predicted his reported mating success better than how attractive he looked to women. The researchers concluded, “Men with higher physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, reported higher quantitative mating success.”
These findings converge with two more ecologically valid results from two studies in small scale societies. In one Western African population, men involved in traditional ritual fights (wrestling) had a higher number of offspring, but were not especially preferred by local women (Llaurens, Raymond, & Faurie, 2009). In another traditional society, men's success in turtle hunting predicted earlier onset of reproduction and higher reproductive success, but again did not seem to be valued by women (Smith, Bird, & Bird, 2003).
Across 91 studies, bodily masculinity was predictive of men's mating and reproductive success
As the only trait in our analysis that is consistently (and most strongly) correlated with fitness outcomes across populations, body masculinity is the only trait we can conclude appears to be under present selection in naturally fertile populations [...] Since traits such as strength and muscularity are associated with formidability, this finding lends support to the male-male competition hypothesis
Lift More Weights, Get More Mates: UCLA Resesarch Shows Muscular Men Have More Flings, Partners, Affairs
Women don't just like men with muscles — they go for them. Men who are more muscular than average are much more likely to have short-term affairs and multiple sex partners than their scrawnier peers, according to new UCLA research published i...
Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness.
Contrary to popular theories of men's physical attractiveness, there was no evidence of a nonlinear effect; the strongest men were the most attractive in all samples.
The authors of the study also found that that there was no statistically significant portion of the female sample that had a preference for weaker looking men when evaluating male bodily attractiveness.
Weight is unattractive after controlling for how strong a man looks...this is consistent with the hypothesis that women's mate choice mechanisms respond to muscle mass positively but large stores of body fat negatively.
2. TINDER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the Tinder results of two buff dudes, none of them facially graceful. We will find out how well a muscle-bound body does in online dating.
-The first buff dude got +99 likes in less than 72 hrs (https://archive.is/E1WZQ)
-The second buff dude got +99 likes in 28 hrs (https://archive.is/7IKtM)
This means that, even though onlide dating is about female choice, and none of the profiles were facially appealling, they got carried by their bodies. Therefore, you can reap the benefits of the Girth Theory through online dating as well, it's not limited to real life enviroments.
3. PHOTOFEELER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the results of buff and ottermode dudes on Photofeeler, none of them facially appealing.
We will find out how much a muscle-bound body adds to your overall attractiveness.
The first buff dude got a score of 8.0
The second buff dude got a score of 7.5
The first ottermode dude got a score of 7.8
The second ottermode dude got a score of 8.1
As we can see, there were no significant differences between the ratings of the buff and ottermode bodies.
Besides, all of them got their attractiveness boosted by their bodies (they instantly got into the top 20-25% of men) and, as they all got relatively high scores, this means their physiques were alluring to a significant portion of women, not to a small subset of women who crave muscle-bound men above everything else.
4. CONCLUSIONS
In real life, the main predictor of mating succes is upper body musculature, not facial looks. Moreover, upper body musculature significantly boosts your attractiveness, to the point that upper body musculature efectively allows you to compete with other men in online dating. Lastly, upper body musculature is not a zero sum game, so you can have a smaller, yet still muscle-bound body, and still reap the benefits of the Girth Theory.
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