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[quote]Men and Women Misperceive What the Opposite Sex Finds Attractive

Participants were... presented with an image of the same-sex body and were asked to adjust BMI and body fat percentage to reflect their own body shape, their ideal body shape, and the body shape that a heterosexual opposite-sex individual would find most attractive for short-term and long-term relationships," the researchers described. "When presented with opposite-sex bodies, participants were asked to, again, adjust BMI and body fat percentage to reflect their own preferences in an opposite-sex body for short-term and long-term partners.

Xue and Perrett found that women overestimated men's preference for thinness in female partners. At the same time, men overestimated women's preference for muscularity in male partners. (See figure above.)

Though the differences were slight, this is still good news. It suggests that men and women cultured to Western norms of ideal bodies do not desire as stringent a standard of attractiveness as most of us think

[b]Men's and women's body dissatisfaction is associated with what they perceive the opposite-sex prefer. Therefore, correcting misperceptions of opposite-sex preferences might help to prevent and treat eating disorders or body dissatisfaction among young men and women," the authors write[/b].[/quote]

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2020/06/01/men_and_women_misperceive_what_the_opposite_sex_finds_attractive.html

The article also has a visual chart of what men vs women find attractive. Maybe someone can post the image. I can not seem to do it. [/quote]

The differences are actually pretty tiny. It is not like men prefer a BMI of 30 and women think they need to be at 20 to be attractive. The differences they found would be hard to discern in real life.[/quote]

IRL men and women with BMI 30 plus are dating and getting married. [/quote]

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