WOMEN JUDGE MEN BY THEIR FACIAL HAIR

(October, 2016) New research finds that women will form a personal opinion about men based on how much hair he has on his face. Investigators from the University of Queensland in Australia asked 8,520 women to view computerized, manipulated images of men who displayed various stages of facial hair – clean-shaven, light stubble, heavy stubble, and full beards – with additional differences in brow ridge, cheekbones, and jawline. The females were asked to rate the attractiveness of these men. The results, which were published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology:
– Stubble was judged as most attractive overall and received the highest marks for a short-term relationship.
– A full beard was more attractive in terms of a committed partner, “as a signal of intrasexual formidability and the potential to provide direct benefits to females.”
– Extremely masculine (images morphed where the men had narrower eyes, thicker and straighter eyebrows, a thicker nasal bridge with narrower nostrils, less pronounced cheekbones, a narrower mouth and a larger, and a squarer jaw and chin) and extremely feminine-looking males (where these characteristics were diminished) were least attractive.
* So, anything between Cro-magnon and Johnny Weir is sexy?
* I’m still trying to figure out if I’m supposed to shave my legs, and now I have to worry about the length of my face stubble?
* And still no clear data on man buns.
* Full beards are more attractive? Well, that explains why the Taliban gets laid so much.
* The Journal of Evolutionary Biology? What do they have? One issue every million years?