"What does a woman want?" asked Freud. A guy who is tall and well-endowed, suggests an Australian study that used male cut-outs to ask the question.
In the study, the researchers showed a series of life-size cut-out images of variously-sized men viewed by 105 heterosexual Australian women ages 18 to 53. The women, who stood about 20 feet away from a movie screen to watch and rate videos depicting 343 varied male outlines in a non-aroused state, were told only that the study was measuring "male attractiveness." They also rated taller and more broad-shouldered men as more attractive, as in past studies, but being well-endowed mattered almost as much as height in the new study.
"It is a pretty unusual study, but sex and behavior are important parts of evolution for any species, so the results are worth noting," says evolutionary biologist Wyatt Anderson of the University of Georgia in Athens, who led the review of the study for the journal. "It was a well-controlled study and the reviewers all agreed with the conclusions they reported."
The attractiveness results, however, stopped increasing as fast past a certain length, about 3 inches, the study reports, supporting the idea that the results may have been more a matter of pleasing proportional size in the most attractive masculine shapes, Mautz says. "This is a first-time study, so we should be cautious."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/08/size-male-attractiveness/20...Thoughts, ladies? (and Karnal)