Now, normally I wouldn’t put much effort into sharing with you such an obvious science article as one subtitled, “Scientific proof that men look at women’s breasts first and their face is almost last.” But then, most researches don’t offer up such brilliant explanations for their results.
In a study conducted somewhere and reported on by some British (or is it Australian?) paper, researchers discovered that almost half of all men’s first glances of women were at their boobs, a third were at their waist, and less than a fifth were at their face (those are the gay and “married too long” guys). To support their point, the article links to three galleries of very lovely women. No, seriously — a science article linked to starlet/model galleries. They could have picked better examples than Rachel Finch, Jennifer Hawkins, and Laura Bingle, but I won’t complain too much (SALMA HAYEK).
I’m sure a lot of researchers would simply attribute such a finding to evolution. After all, big boobs means simultaneously more milk for offspring and, normally, higher levels of hormones associated with fertility. I like these guys’ answer better, though:
“Men may be looking more often at the breasts because they are simply aesthetically pleasing, regardless of the size,” they said.
Well put, good friend. You know why men look at boobs? Because boobs are awesome. That’s just science.
“Eighty per cent of first fixations were on the breasts and midriff. Men spent consistently more time looking at the breasts and also made significantly more fixations upon them than other regions,” the study concluded.
On a slightly more serious note, this is just another instance of when I wished newspapers would bother to do even minimal citation of the studies they report on so I could go read them for myself. I’m left wondering which photos they chose, in particular. Amazing clevage just instantly grabs a guy’s attention. But would those same boobs still draw a significant amount of glances where they in, say, a T-shirt? Obviously, they would (science: “boobs are awesome”), but how much more? And how small/misshapen do the boobs have to be before the glances significantly change?
Even though I’m a leg guy, I can’t argue with this science (”boobs are awesome” indeed), but it’s surely somewhat biased. Where’s the bum representation? Perhaps I should go back into the field of psychology to answer these hefty (haha) questions. Where did I stash my HS-IRB forms?