Faces as a Cue to Physical Attractiveness

It's been a long researched topic: What attracts us to one another? Specifically, what makes us physically attracted to men. It's been discussed that muscles/physical build, hormones, pheromones and amount of testostrone the male has can decide whether we are attracted to men or not but lately studies have been focusing on another aspact of the male body: the face. How we perceive a male face in regards to sharp features, soft features, and symmetry have a large role in the type of guys we become physically attracted to.

The following as been taken from wikipedia. However there are many articles dedicated to this topic. If you are interested in this topic, I suggest you search them up as they can be intriguing.


Anthony Green/ Geoff Begnaud/ Sean Sullivan/Rob Evans

Studies have shown that ovulating heterosexual women (and homosexual men) prefer faces with masculine traits associated with increased exposure to testosterone during key developmental stages, such as prominent and broad cheekbones, a relatively longer lower face, develeoped brows, and chiseled jawlines.



Jed Hill/Joey K/Nick M/josh ohl


It is suggested that the masculinity of facial features is a reliable indication of good health, or, alternatively, that masculine-looking males are more likely to achieve high status. However, the correlation between attractive facial features and health has been questioned. Also, females tend to prefer masculine facial traits more for short-term partners than for long-term partners.



Gary Taylor/ Andre Ziehe/ Anthony M/ Radoslav Vanko

Symmetrical faces and bodies may be signs of good inheritance to women of child-bearing age seeking to create healthy offspring. Studies suggest women are more attracted to men with symmetrical faces, and symmetrical faces correlate with long term mental performance and are an indication that a man has experienced "fewer genetic and environmental disturbances such as diseases, toxins, malnutrition or genetic mutations" while growing. Since achieving symmetry is a difficult task during human growth, requiring literally billions of cell reproductions while maintaining a parallel structure, achieving symmetry is a visible signal of genetic health.



Wendell Lissimore/ Simon Tham/ Sean O'pry/ Simon Nessman

Taking all this to account, what is your view on male attractiveness. Can the face really determine how attractive you are to a man or what role he will play?


Source: "Physical Attractiveness", Wikipedia.org