Women Prefer Men with Stubble
Take care with hair.
If you find smooth baby-faces to be strangely unattractive, you may not be alone. According to a recent study, women were found to be more attracted to men with chin stubble than those who were clean shaven or full-bearded.
Researchers showed pictures of men in five various stages of hairiness - clean-shaven, light stubble, heavy stubble, light beard and heavy beard - to women and asked them to rate the men on various attributes.
Men with light stubble were rated the most attractive and the most ideal partners for short and long term relationships.
Faces with full beards were perceived to be more masculine, but they were also judged to be 5 years older than the rest and the least attractive.
Clean-shaven men finished at the bottom of categories like masculinity, aggressiveness and sexual maturity, and were second-to-last in attractiveness.
These results led researchers to conclude that women associate facial hair with masculine aggression, and the more stubble a guy has the more aggressive he is perceived. In that case, women were shown to desire men who weren't baby-smooth or bear-faced, but somewhere in between.
So the next time you're crushing on a guy who lights matches on his face, you'll know it's not just the trick that turns you on.
Here are a few pics of some famous stubble-bearers.
