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Talk about cutting-edge science. A new study conducted by researchers in Australia shows that women prefer men with heavy stubble over clean-shaven guys and guys sporting light stubble or full beards.
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The researchers then asked the women and men to rate the men in the photos according to their attractiveness, finding heavy stubble to be the clear winner among women.
What explains the hankering for heavy stubble?
"Our findings confirm that beardedness affects judgments of male socio-sexual attributes and suggest that an intermediate level of beardedness is most attractive while full-bearded men may be perceived as better fathers who could protect and invest in offspring," the researchers concluded in the abstract of their study.
Dixson and Brooks hypothesize that facial hair makes men seem more mature and masculine but also more dominant and aggressive, the website of the Australia edition of Men's Health reported.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/beard-study-heavy-stubble-men-attractive-women_n_3180157.html
I knew it!
octothorpe
(962 posts)now I keep something that might be considered close to heavy stubble, and I notice a difference in how people view me. Not just women either, but it's even with men. It's weird.
I figure if facial hair worked this well, what would happen if I grew a back full of hair? I've been applying rogain foam to my back for the past three months. SOON I WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)"Hey, wanna shave my back?" ?
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Study sponsored by men who can't be bothered to groom themselves properly.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)But that is just my opinion. I like a smooth face. But I don't mind a bit of body hair. I do like a man to look like a man.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)i've always preferred men with facial hair, full beards too, guess that's just the old hippie in me
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Still, my GF said that she likes it when I'm clean-shaven. Different women have different turn-ons, just like men.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...who sneeringly referred to the thick stubble sported by certain celebrities as "designer stubble". That term always comes to mind when I see the "just right" stubble on men.