September 15, 2010
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Study Confirms Men are Shallow
A recent study of 375 men showed that if men had the opportunity to pick a woman to date by her body or face, they would pick her body.
Men had to pick which woman they wanted to date from a photo. But they had to pick by only seeing her body or face. They were forced to pick one or the other.
If they were picking for a short-term dating relationship, men were more likely to want to see the woman’s body. If they were going to pick the woman for a long-term relationship, the wanted to see her face. Here is the link: Link
If you had to pick a person you were going to date for the next year, would you want to see the person’s body or the person’s face?
Comments (64)
As long as she didn’t look like Sarah Jessica Parker…
First?!?!?
Face, personally. Imagine waking up to someone with a butt-ugly face.
@crystal_air - Lol @ first.
Niether…..I want to see her heart. No exceptions.
This just made me laugh.
Face. Though don’t underestimate how a person’s intelligence and personal security can be judged by their chest and posterior regions.
Big surprise!
Depends if I wanted the next year to be one of romance or one of babymaking.
they needed a study for this?
Body. That’s what paper bags are for.
men and women are shallow.
Their organs. Those sell better.
Face.
What about certain parts of the face? Because you know, it’s hard to get a nice set of eyes along with a decent set of teeth…
PERSONALITY. Eeeesh!
Wallet!
@ksnomad - Niiiice x)
I was going to say something like that.
I could never choose someone by just looking at a picture.
@hilaw - exactly what I was thinking
Face.
@ksnomad - great answer
I only date people who have the ability to enrage my parental units.
A woman has a larger body than face. Why wouldn’t you spend more time thinking about it? (it’s not like the attraction feeling looking at a face is any different than looking at the body. They’re both shallow)
Ha, why am I not surprised…I hope they all end up with this situation, that’ll teach them to judge someone by pictures! Lol
Talk about a Catch 22…
either choice would make them shallow!
men are shallow no matter what every man in this world is shallow
boobs
If I had to pick, I’d rather just not.
And women can be just as shallow. What was the point of this? -_-’
face. sorry, i cant get over not knowing what their face looks like. hell, even if it was a one night stand, i need a face.
Neither…I go with personality…if I don’t like you your face and body don’t matter.
They needed to study this? It’s a no boner…um brainer.
I agree with ksnomad. It’s the heart and personality that always gets me, because I want something meaningful. Nice to look at is just nice to look at, and that we have pictures for.
neither. i’d pick by their personality, of course!
if i were actually a good person.
hey, how do i get a job as a researcher of things EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS?
did stimulus money pay for this? omg, tea party!
faaaaace. C’mon now ugly faces are ugly.
Bank account.
For a year? I’d rather know her personality, but if it came down to it I’d go for the face. You don’t need a slammin body just for a good relationship.
Face, I couldn’t kiss an ugly face. I’m sorry, but I can’t.
Not surprising. At all.
ur just talking about fucking..now…if vagina is all the same…than of course looks would only matter..wtf kinda study is this…if they made money..i need to make money off of it too..of course u want a nice face for a long term relationship…damn i really need to go to oxford or some dumb school and make money off of studies…
We needed to conduct a study to know men were shallow, seriously?
id go with face
lol but the study itself was shallow, lol
can’t blame the men completely when they were given only shallow choices
I wont date anyone who i haven’t known for awhile, so kinda not an issue for me. ha.
You make the assumption that choosing a girl based off her body is shallow. From anthropological/scientific perspective this is not shallow. Perhaps it is just human instinct kicking in, choosing the woman who has the best genes to ensure the offspring’s survival. Primal instincts don’t always evolve as quickly as our technology and culture. Cheers =)
They did a study similar to this on women. They showed the picture of the guy and his job title and salary and rated them on a scale of 1 to 10 based (10 being the highest). They switched up the job titles and salary for the men. The findings were leaning to woman rating men with higher salary regardless of their looks.
If I was dating someone I’d get to see both =S
Face.
Everything.
Body.
neither I always go with their personality first.
I am first attracted to the face.
Face. If we are choosing between those two alone.
That’s an odd question.
@imTHEmeowMIXcat - ROFLMAO That’s exactly the picture I thought of while reading this. I’m so glad you made a reference to it XD
@flying_luminescent_ceilingtile -
@PunkRockCowboy - Exactly. The primal psychology of it is vastly different from the cultural psychology.
Well, clothed body or not? You can tell a lot of someone by how they clothe themselves. There’s only so much that you can do to change your face to fit your personality and some people are just very unfortunate. But a person can do a lot to change their body shape (though not type) and they can show a lot of personality in how they dress.
Definitely face. You’re not staring at her body while making love to her. My wife has the most gorgeous face ever, and being able to look at it makes the love sooo much better.
Nice photo of Beyonce’: too bad she’s a……….well that’s a topic for later….
My wife has both being beautiful, so I won both ways….(Praise the Lord)
It’s true, but a lot of guys get tired of that type of female, so they go for cute subtypes, which is the face. Young guys are aggressive to prove, so they want the best status-wise, but most get over it.
That’s not a very good study. After all, it’s STILL shallow if you want to see her face. I don’t think this was comprehensive enough to be definitive.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - Second. Boobs THEN face. In that order.
‘sif. I’d want to see her blog.
It doesn’t matter how pretty the packaging is if there’s nothing in there.
How about what men look for when looking for a WIFE? Otherwise it seems kind of a given.
Your posts seem aimed at being provocative, but without the kind of direction that would lead to anything definitive…
But I guess since this apparently isn’t a blog centered on anything that claims moral authority (such as the Bible or Koran), it cannot provide anyone with anything other than a place to air opinions on matters that Wittgenstein proved are pretty much useless to talk about.
Wait! What am IIII doing here then?
Face