Women are More Attracted to Men with Facial Scars
You walk up to a bar where three men are already standing having their drinks. Two are blond clean shaven with smooth skin and one has brown hair and a small, but noticeable scar above his right eye. Which of the three men are you more likely attracted to?
According to a University of Liverpool study by Robert Burriss on “Facial Scaring Enhances Men’s Attractiveness for Short Term Relationships”, it will be the guy with the scar. It had been commonly thought that facial scarring in Western societies would not be considered attractive but this study has showed that non-severe facial scarring can in fact make men appear more attractive to women but only in short term relationships. In long term relationships, women are equally attracted to both scarred and unscarred male faces.
The study recruited 147 females and 76 males to view pictures of the opposite sex who had scars either from injury or illness and were asked how attractive they thought the person was for long term or short term relationships. While women found scarring to be an attractive quality in men for short term relationships, the same was not true for men. The men rated women’s attractiveness independent of whether they had scars or not.
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