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Overall, the evidence suggests that women find men with body fat percentages in the middle of the healthy range to be most attractive, on average. A small, but still fairly large, minority of women prefer leaner men (close to the ideal of defined abs). A much smaller percentage of women claim not to care much about a man's level of body fat, and an even smaller subset appears to actively prefers obese men. | Overall, the evidence suggests that women find men with body fat percentages in the middle of the healthy range to be most attractive, on average. A small, but still fairly large, minority of women prefer leaner men (close to the ideal of defined abs). A much smaller percentage of women claim not to care much about a man's level of body fat, and an even smaller subset appears to actively prefers obese men. | ||
===Ideal Ratios=== | |||
In light of the above discussion regarding the influence of ratios such as the shoulder-to-hip (SHR) ratio on male body attractiveness, it may be productive to briefly review the research into what ratios women generally consider ideal in men. | |||
Cloud & Perilloux reviewed 6 other studies that examined the influence of these ratios on women's attractiveness judgements of male bodies. These researchers then instructed 85 women to outline their ideal male body and the outline of a woman that they believed members of the opposite sex find maximally attractive. | |||
Despite this rather crude method of capturing ideal female preferences, it held up well, with the derived bodily ratios corresponding very closely to the ideal ratios extracted from the other 6 studies, which also substantially varied in their metrics and methodology. This suggests these ratios may be quite close to what is generally preferred. The only ratio in this study that substantially varied from other studies was the ideal leg-to-body ratio (ratio of leg length to total height), which may have been caused by the use of ordinal vs. discrete categories and the lack of research into this metric. | |||
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! colspan="5" | Ideal male body ratios<ref>[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-015-0020-x Source]</ref> | |||
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! WHR (waist-to-hip ratio) | |||
! WCR (waist-to-chest ratio) | |||
! WSR (waist-to-shoulder ratio) | |||
! SHR (shoulder-to-hip ratio) | |||
! LBR (leg-to-body ratio) | |||
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| 0.9 | |||
| 0.8 | |||
| 0.6 | |||
|c. 1.45-1.5 | |||
| 0.43 | |||
|} | |||
==Relative contribution of face and body to attractiveness== | ==Relative contribution of face and body to attractiveness== | ||