A Harvard University-supported research project indicates that what attracts males sexually differs from what attracts females, whatever their sexual orientation.
Based on an online study (the first to investigate facial feature preferences of gay men and lesbians), where more than 900 men and women took part:
- Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men.
- Types of male faces that gay men found attractive generally did not match types of faces straight women found attractive.
- Gay men and straight men did not agree on the types of male faces they considered attractive.
- Straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
- Women’s preferences are more complex than men’s.
- In this study straight women preferred more masculine-faced men than lesbians did.
- Lesbians preferred slightly more masculine female faces than straight women or men did.
The news item also said:
"Prior research has also shown that women prefer more masculine male faces when ovulating, indicating an evolutionary function for facial attraction. Men who have faces that are higher in sexual dimorphism (masculinity) have been shown to have better health and dominance but lower investment in offspring."
The study was led by Aaron Glassenberg with co-authors David Feinberg of McMaster University, Benedict Jones and Lisa DeBruine of University of Aberdeen, and Anthony Little of University of Stirling.
Their article, in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior: Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women
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