Why do girls like handsome guys

Once you realize this, you can act like a living, breathing person in front of them and stop brushing your hair again. As the popular saying goes, even the Queen shits. Save Pin FB More. Credit: Getty. I was born into a family of ridiculously good looking men. Bathukamma bedecks Burj Khalifa; Telangana's fest goes global.

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In addition to strong features, new research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that weight may also be a factor in attraction.

While the women in this study responded favorably to a strong jawline in men, they used thinness and fatness to cue them into a man's overall fitness level more than any macho facial features — and the fitter the men appeared, the more attractive they were , perhaps because of the same desire noted in other studies for a man with a strong immune system.

Men described as "generous" won points with women who participated in a study published in the British Journal of Psychology. Women believed these men had great sex appeal for long-term relationships or simply a single date; altruism got high marks as a good character trait. Although the mark on the New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees face is actually a birthmark, it still may give him a leg up with the ladies, according to research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

In the study, researchers asked women to rate men with slight facial scars and men without facial scars for sex appeal. Overall, women thought the men with facial scars were sexier. No longer is "he has a great personality" code for a lack of attractiveness — it turns out that personal charm really adds to your sex appeal, according to a study published in the journal Personal Relationships.

The study asked people to rate photos of the opposite sex for attractiveness before and after getting more information about their personalities. Photos attached to traits like being honest and helpful looked more attractive the second time around — and negative traits lessened the impact of good looks. Far more intriguing are couples who aren't a perfect match lookswise.

Suddenly, there's a riddle to solve: What the hell is she doing with him? And vice versa, of course. But this being an aspirational magazine for men, let's stick to the former.

The mystery intensifies when the lady in question is not only gorgeous but also smart, funny, and wildly successful, and the guy in question is a scruffy-looking dude with a dad bod, a nonexistent career, and a bad habit of showing up to red-carpet events looking like he just got off a fifteen-hour flight from Mongolia. Before we dive into my General Theory of Relative Attractiveness, let's review the very generalized facts. There are unquestionably more beautiful women in the world than there are handsome men.

Women are criticized for having the audacity to exist past the age of forty, but contrary to popular belief, men are the ones who really go to seed as the years tick by. The guys mostly look like Gary Busey after a three-day doughnut-and-bourbon bender. Plus, women learn from their mistakes.

Like many of us—on every point along the gender spectrum—I spent my formative years experimenting with just how much stupidity, selfishness, and humorlessness I could tolerate for the sake of dating hotties. But I quickly gleaned that life spent in the company of a self-serving simpleton is no life at all. Substance, it turned out, was not overrated. Yes, we started out shallow, now we're here: As women mature, we rarely see our partner's appearance as a measure of our own value, in stark contrast to those men who try to distract us from their deep-seated insecurities by dragging an extra-shiny, much-hotter lady friend around with them like an overpriced designer handbag.

Timely case in point: our newish president, whose ego is more fragile than a Ming vase and whose looks are ten thousand leagues under Melania's sea. At a time when women look better, value appearance less, and don't feel the need to prop up their sense of self-worth with arm candy as men do, perhaps it's only natural to encounter mismatched-looking couples roaming about, openly challenging Darwin's views of sexual selection.

But does that fully explain why goddess Serena Williams insists on keeping company with pasty boy-muffin Alexis Ohanian? Does it help us grasp the alignment of clever beauty J. Rowling and nerdlet physician Neil Murray?

Maybe he studied enchantment spells in med school. As unseemly as it may be to admit, when you survey the swath of famous women dating or married to average men, speculation about what's going on behind closed doors becomes unavoidable. If you're capable of charming the pants off any living mortal on the face of the planet—a target demographic that theoretically includes Ryan Gosling and Idris Elba—why go for a wispy-looking chump with no disposable income and Fritos crumbs stuck in his beard?

Are high-quality, superfine, megasuccessful men so rare that superlative women are forced to settle?