Do women find men with abs more attractive?
A few years ago, we ran a survey where we asked women to rate the attractiveness of various male bodies. We presented them with photos of male torsos, heads cropped off, and they told us which of the bodies they found the most attractive. We also asked them why they found some male bodies more attractive than others.
Some of those photo arrays were designed to see whether women preferred men with healthy body-fat percentages, and they did:
Pt 3
In this photo array, 58% of women chose a man with a body fat-percentage of around 14%.
In this comparison, women found Gerard Butler more attractive when he dropped from a body-fat percentage of about 30% to around 15%.
This was as expected. Women were picking the men with lower body-fat percentages because those lower body-fat percentages were healthier. But what happens when we drop the body-fat even lower?
Other photo arrays were designed to see whether women preferred men with abs. They did not:
Pt 4
Here, 63% of women found a body-fat percentage of around 13% the most attractive, preferring it to the physiques of guys with more chiseled abs.
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