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Plain girls target handsome men
Beautiful women are happy to date ugly boyfriends because, subconsciously, they believe they'll still have good-looking babies, claim scientists.
However, less attractive women deliberately seek handsome partners to give their offspring a head start in the looks department.
The new findings go against long-held beliefs that attractive people are only attracted to members of the opposite sex who are similarly good-looking.
The study, which took place in Poland, judged attractiveness in women on their hip-to-waist ratio (a moderate ratio being deemed most alluring).
'It can be hypothesized that women with higher waist-to-hip ratio, ie less attractive ones, may more intensively "hunt for genes" related to attractiveness to increase their offspring's chance to be more attractive and to have a greater chance of reproductive success,' said the researchers.
Tuesday 27 November 2007
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Very interesting, Liz. I note that your shallow self centred view of yourself has also deprived you of the ability to write cohesive english.
Comment by Tom Brown on December 17 09:48
Very true, my mother is unattractive on the hip to waist ratio, and my father was a tall, thin handsome man. I know she did it to give me a head start in the looks department because she even once said to me when I showed her had bad my double chin was, "That's too bad, because I had high hopes for you." Gee, I wonder why.
Comment by Liz on November 06 15:52
RUBBISH!
Less attractive women date handsome men because they are prepared to persue them. Good looking guys tend to be lazy and expect women to approach them and are easily flattered by female attention.
Comment by Brian Flynn on February 05 14:58