Those guys are below your threshold for some dimension (which may be related to masculinity). I would hazard a guess that for you, once it’s obvious that a guy isn’t too soft, being less soft isn’t always better, and that you don’t like men who are too far on the other end of that dimension (whatever it is), either.
I would also hazard to guess that the degree of hardness (err… make that not-softness) that appeals varies on a 28 day cycle. (‘Guess’ in as much as studies and my own observations of the general population may of course not apply to individual cases. Indeed, there are some obvious potential reasons why they wouldn’t.)
Good guess. They’ve done this study, and you’re 100% right. We watched a bit of a film discussing it in my anthro class. (I didn’t note whose study it was, but the film is called “Why Sex?” and you could probably find out from there.)
They used a program where you could slide smoothly between a very feminine face and a very masculine one, and asked women to find someone along that scale who looked ideal for a short-term fling, and someone else for a long-term relationship. The difference between the two follows the pattern that you’d expect—more masculine and virile-looking for the short term, softer and more kind-looking for the long term—but both answers slid further towards the masculine end of the scale when the subject was currently ovulating.
I would also hazard to guess that the degree of hardness (err… make that not-softness) that appeals varies on a 28 day cycle. (‘Guess’ in as much as studies and my own observations of the general population may of course not apply to individual cases. Indeed, there are some obvious potential reasons why they wouldn’t.)
Good guess. They’ve done this study, and you’re 100% right. We watched a bit of a film discussing it in my anthro class. (I didn’t note whose study it was, but the film is called “Why Sex?” and you could probably find out from there.)
They used a program where you could slide smoothly between a very feminine face and a very masculine one, and asked women to find someone along that scale who looked ideal for a short-term fling, and someone else for a long-term relationship. The difference between the two follows the pattern that you’d expect—more masculine and virile-looking for the short term, softer and more kind-looking for the long term—but both answers slid further towards the masculine end of the scale when the subject was currently ovulating.