According to a recent scientific study conducted at Florida Atlantic University, guys with better looking women get more sex than guys with less attractive women.
The study says that guys with attractive women are marking their territory and holding onto their partner who’s more likely to be pursued by other men. This increases the odds of infidelity.
It’s a no-brainer that attractive partners get more sex; but, Farnaz Kaighobadi, a PhD student in the evolutionary psychology lab at Florida Atlantic University, says our cave-dwelling past runs deeper than thinking your mate is hot.
The study also found sex is a mate retention behavior designed to hold onto a partner from straying. Other behaviors are buying small gifts, offering compliments, or even nasty traits like going through a partner’s emails or getting angry at anyone else showing their mate attention, according to Kaighobadi.
Kaighobadi also believes the underlying reasons are deeply unconscious.
"It's not like men are sitting there and thinking, "My partner is attractive so it's likely she's going to be unfaithful, so let me have more sex with her," she says.” It could be simply, 'My partner is hot, I'm going to have more sex with her."
Men reported having sex with their partners on an average of 3.3 times in a typical week. The men also assigned partners an average attractiveness rating of 7.9 on a scale of 0 to 9. With each one-point increase in attractiveness, sex frequency increased by 40 percent, according to Kaighobadi.
The study involved 277 heterosexual men and will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
It's not yet clear how this dynamic plays out in same-sex couples, Kaighobadi says. Based on this study, men who want more sex may need to find an attractive partner. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but apparently getting more sex isn’t.
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