"If you’re trying to suss out the most attractive male body type, look at mediamarketed towards women.We can illustrate this with a study that looked into the differing degrees of muscularity in men’s and women’s magazines (study).Most women are attracted to physiques that are a little leaner and more muscular than average, like the guy you’d see on the cover ofCosmo. Most men consider that physique too small.
At theMen’s Healthlevel, the disparity shrinks. These bodies are muscular enough to look good to men but not so muscle-bound that they look bad to women. Some researchers argue that these stronger physiques are what women gravitate towards in real life. After all, both guys look ripped with their shirts off, but theMen’s Healthguy can fill out a shirt better than theCosmoguy can.
However, once you’ve got a “fit” physique, you’ll hit a point of diminishing returns. Gaining another twenty pounds of muscle won’t make you look significantly more attractive to women because it won’t make you look significantly healthier or more athletic. The benefit at that point is that you’ll look better to yourself and other men.
Then, as we move towards media designed for male lifters, such asMen’s Fitness, the disparity between male and female preferences widens again. Most guys who lift weights prefer these more muscular physiques, whereas women start to find them muscle-bound and bulky"
Women would pick the narrow shouldered pretty boy over a 10/10 body with le pol face
Lucas Murphy
If you do your own research into the female gaze and you're lifting, you already know this. It's the same with men and bikini competitions, varbies and roided out ogress that compete in classic physique. The average normie women and men tend to like the "toned" slim body with "some muscle."
Let's be honest man. If you don't look at least as good as Brad pitt you're stuck fishing for girls below 9/10 and it's just not worth it to try.
Camden Harris
>get jacked on roids >stop attracting women
Wait, this has never happened to anybody. Could it be that women are lying about their preferences?
Carson Jackson
chest too big. Pic related is perfect to be a fuck boy. You can go bigger as you are, but if you don't have the fuckboy face, your additional muscles won't do you any favor.
Ofc women will still have sex with them, but women also fuck fat guys despite what incels on this board say. It's just not the average lady's *ideal*
Benjamin King
Unironically this body is mentioned.
" We also showed them a photo array of actors, again with the heads cut off. Women chose the body of Brad Pitt in Fight Club:
[ Which actor male physique is the most attractive to women? Brad Pitt / Fight Club / Tyler Durden ] pic related*
Brad Pitt is a naturally thin guy. To bulk up for Fight Club, he started lifting weights. This is the physique that became legendary. This is the physique that women rated as the most attractive. It’s not the physique of someone who’s “naturally” in good shape, but it’s not the physique of a diehard bodybuilder, either. This the body of someone with fairly average muscle-building genetics who spent a few months building muscle.
There’s a miscommunication here. Women say they prefer “naturally” fit guys, but in reality, they prefer guys who look like they lift weights. Remember, we showed women a wide range of physiques. The guys who were out of shape got 0–1% of the votes.
There’s another side to this, though, and most men find it even more confusing."
Sauce: THE SKINNY GUY’S GUIDE TO AESTHETICS: HOW TO BUILD AN ATTRACTIVE PHYSIQUE (Article). Credits to "Bony to Beastly".
> the Any Forums guts is real. I used to correlate to virgin talks.
One thing about this that i wonder is if women rate the bodies on other things then just muscle. Brad Pit has a good body because of the length of his limbs, the proportions the muscle insertions, shoulder to waist ratio, and so on. How can they know that is the muscularity they are rating his body on and not the other things? Understand what i mean?
Luis Turner
True. If the image does not refer to the presence, the presence has to refer to the image, otherwise people will underestimate you in any sense. I think.
Lucas Garcia
makes sense, women also like to think that a man is effortlessly good rather than having to work his ass off, so a body that would require discipline but not a too great effort is the sweet spot I think there's definitely other factors in play. Between his body and the angle/lighting in that pic Brad looks very harmonic, balances. It's just pleasant too look at even as a bunch of abstract shapes imo
Brandon Parker
Yes. But when we talk about steroids, we are talking about stimulants. I think the question is about how someone who is hormonized but has a "natural" physique is more preferable than a hypothetical giant bodybuilder but who has not used such steroids.
In other words... the preference is about the cover of the book, not how good content it would have.
The garden of the house attracts, the treatment inside keeps.
