The prevailing view in evolutionary psychology is that highly masculine men make great sperm donors but not necessarily awesome partners and fathers. And women contemplating once-off sex or infidelity are keener on masculine-looking men. Women who rate their own partners as highly masculine, or who describe their ideal partners as highly masculine, prefer more masculine faces in experiments. ![]() Women at the fertile peak of their cycle favour more masculine faces, or at least less-feminine ones, than women not at the fertile peak or on the pill. It seems that women vary in how attractive they find masculine faces. More studies report an overall preference for ‘feminine’ male faces than for ‘masculine’ ones. For every Javier Bardem or Josh Brolin, there’s an Orlando Bloom or Zac Efron down the girly end of the man-tinuum. Women don’t usually find masculine faces more attractive than more feminine male faces. ![]() Javier Bardem’s prominent cheeks, large brows and jaw give his face an exaggerated masculinity.
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