What body types do women/guys find most/least attractive?

Widdershins wrote:

Me too. I don't like short hair. Why do women have to chop their hair off at a certain age.

It may be a signal that they are no longer fertile or sexually receptive perhaps?
Think about it. What percentage of women over 50 do you see with long glossy hair? Much much less than younger fertile women.

Similarly, same own goes for guys. They get too 40 and stop giving any sort of a shíte about appearance.





And dude, on the height thing. You seriously need to get that cup of your shoulder man. Being slightly below average height is not that big a disadvantage. A good friend of mine is only 5'6" and he is an animal for women, very popular with girls and had had sex with more women than I've had got dinners. Seriously, he'd get up on the fridge! Why? Because he has a great personality and exudes confidence.
That maybe where you are going wrong.... Look at your attitude man...... If you are negative, resentful, jealous, insecure, not confident, that will come across and they are totally unattractive traits. People are attracted to confidence because it's a sign of maturity, social skills, etc and would make that person a better bet for breeding with than someone who has some insecurities or complexes or whatever.

That said, I think ideal height is 5'10". It gives a very proportioned look. Guys 6 for plus can often appear out of proportion and gangley. I'm 5 9 and happy with that and I'm currently 72kg at 14 percent bf.

All that said, a proportion of women must have attraction for shorter guys because otherwise people of shorter statue simply would not exist because they would have been bred out of existence. Extremely short or tall people don't exist because they were bred out because it not attractive because it offered no advantage.

I know it's not all about physical add someone said - personality have massive impact too. That's why people like confidence, intelligence and good social skills in a partner and find that attractive too. Eg, how many physically normal but autistic people have children? Very very few. That trait is extremely unattractive because it puts potential pairing at a huge survival disadvantage because of a) possibility of inheriting the disorder and having an ineffective and suboptimal parent who can't care for or raise the child as well as a neurotypical person.

We might like to think we have free will but I believe that we are all hard wired in this regard to a very large degree. We don't select mates involuntarily or automatically but this hard wiring influences our thoughts and our preferences in selecting a mate to bed from.

For example, I'll give you some of my dating stories that I've analysed tonight from an evolutionary biology/sexual selection perspective.
I dated a very pleasant, friendly, good-looking, confident girl 2 years ago. I really liked her and we got on great. She told me she had a chronic but relatively mild and easily treatable medical condition.
I soon found myself my losing attraction for her . Why? Because my subconscious, under the influence of genetic hard wired programming, was telling me that this girl has suboptimal health and is not a good bet for breeding with because she may pass on the the condition or may become very ill and be unable to be an effective parent. Telling me to save my resources here, move on and find someone healthier and genetically fitter with whom to breed with.
Other girls who were very nice and good people I didn't pursue further dating with because they had not great educations or poor career protects - to my subconscious these girls lacked the capacity to provide the degree of resources which my subconscious felt would be necessary to raise a family successfully.

Of course I want consciously thinking this at the time, I was just thinking "meh, not for me" or "no spark" or whatever and decided not to date further. I'm just retrospectively analysing the possible subconscious motivations for those situations.

I believe we are under the influence of our genome, honed by eons of evolution much more than many would like to think.