Boys do not prefer underweight girls
October 28, 2009
A study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has found that most men are attracted to girls who are of a normal weight rather than those who are underweight. A team from the university’s perception lab photographed a group of eighty-four female students, asked them about their health and fitness and tested their blood pressure. They then invited a group of male students to examine the photographs and rate them in the categories of weight, health and attractiveness.
Project supervisor, Professor David Perrett said that the results sent out the very clear message that men do not necessarily find girls who keep their weight below normal more attractive than those of a healthy size. The study showed that group of men aged between 18 and 26 years mostly found girls of an average weight more attractive than those who were under or over.
Vinet Coetzee, a lead researcher in the project said that scientists are constantly looking for answers to the link between being healthy and being attractive. She said that it is common for people to react differently to a person depending on how healthy they appear but that it was difficult to work out how we work out whether a person looks healthy or unwell. She said that up until now there had not been many studies involving the weight aspect of a person’s appearance.
She went on to say that even with a group of women at undergraduate age the project found that weight was beginning to have an adverse affect on the women’s health.
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