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Study: Women Prefer Men w/Muscles

Item: Study: Women drawn to men with muscles/Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters

More Info: Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday. Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate. "Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men," said study author David Frederick of UCLA.

Question (for women): What physical attribute do you find most attractive in a man?



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