Want to be a hit with the ladies? You'd better get to work cultivating the old George Michael look then.
Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards.
Women participating in the research rated men with stubble as tough, mature, aggressive, dominant and masculine - and as the best romantic partners, either for a fling or a long-term relationships.
To think all this time I'd been sporting just that look in order to avoid ingrown hairs - turns out I was just unconsciously trying to stay ahead of the fashion curve! There's just one little problem with this new research though.
The findings of the experiment, carried out on British women aged 18 to 44, could explain the appeal of actors such as George Clooney and Brad Pitt who cultivate their unshaven look. [...] The researchers now want to extend their study internationally. Dr Nick Neave, who carried out the study with Kerry Shields, said: "There are large cultural differences in perceptions of facial hair, and we are hoping to expand on this research by conducting a large-scale study assessing female perceptions of male facial hair in different in as many countries as possible."
Hmm, so it's not just that the study is bound to the inhabitants of a particular country, but that the country in question happens to be Britain, whose womanhood is famed worldwide for its beauty, decorum and good taste ... On second thought, perhaps you'd better hold off on the whole stubble thing for a while yet then.
(Filed under "entertainment", as I don't agree that this sort of story has enough substance to be classified as "science").
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