You may need to work out a bit to be attracted to women. Women judge men with what they see as soon as you walk in to a spa. A kind person always look beautiful in a lady's eyes but they will serve you better if you look lean healthy, kind and generous. . Most Asian ladies like slim and fit athlectic guys, they are not very fond of big masculine guys. Thank God, I am blessed with the looks and body most Asian women like.
THE MOST ATTRACTIVE DEGREE OF LEANNESS
When we asked women what body fat percentage they found most attractive, 58% chose the body with a flat stomach, and 39% chose the body with abs. The average man is overweight, but only 3% of women chose that body fat percentage. 0% chose the obese body. Whatโs interesting is that
when we surveyed men about female bodies, a small percentage of guys preferred women with higher body-fat percentages. The obese woman got 20 votes (out of 1,072).
THE MOST ATTRACTIVE DEGREE OF MUSCULARITY
When we asked women which degree of muscularity they were most attracted to, there was a fairly even split between the โathleticโ and โstrongโ body types. 51% of women voted for the athletic build, and 43% voted for the strong build. (Note that I didnโt label the bodies in the survey. Women chose โbody 1.โ Iโm labelling them now when talking about the results.)
There were no votes for the skinny body type, and only 6% of women voted for the strongest body type. This aligns with our previous survey and
attractiveness research overall (
study). However, thereโs one notable exception.
In
this study by Dr. Sell et al., there was a linear relationship between strength and attractiveness. The stronger a man was, the more muscular he looked and the more attractive he was. According to Dr. Sellโs results, weโd expect the most muscular man to be the most attractive.
To get to the bottom of the disparity, I spoke with Dr. Sell. After emailing back and forth with him a few times, I think there are a few possible reasons our survey shows a preference for athletic physiques over extremely muscular ones:
- Women seem to assume very muscular men are vain. But if the man isnโt vain, that assumption would disappear upon getting to know him, removing the disadvantage. Plus, when looking at shirtless dudes posing in trunks, they may appear especially vain, exacerbating the stigma.
- The dominant evolutionary explanation for why women prefer stronger men is that stronger men tend to be more formidableโbetter at fighting and protecting resources. But if we look at top mixed martial artists, they arenโt anywhere near as muscular as top bodybuilders.
- Dr. Sellโs study was done on college students. Itโs unlikely that any of the guys in the sample had outlier muscle-building genetics, making them substantially less muscular than top fitness influencers. Plus, college men havenโt had enough time to reach their genetic muscular potential. It could be that the most muscular men in the stuy werenโt that muscular.
- Some men can reach degrees of muscularity that didnโt exist until recently. Until the 1940s, even world-class bodybuilders paled in comparison to modern natural bodybuilders, let alone the guys on SARMs, steroids, or TRT. Thereโs no evolved preference for bodies that didnโt exist in the past.
Finally, thereโs another reason men might be surprised that women arenโt picking the more muscular physiques: men prefer more muscular physiques than women. When we surveyed
men on which body types they preferred, they preferred the more muscular โstrongโ body. This, too, aligns with the results of our previous survey and with attractiveness research overall.