https://web.archive.org/web/20160430064307/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Lift-More-Weights-Get-More-Mates-8069?RelNum=8069
According to a study by UCLA, muscle-bound men report almost 3 times as many sexual partners as men without a muscular physique
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.1819#d3e552
Cues of upper body strength account for most of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness.
Contrary to popular theories of men's physical attractiveness, there was no evidence of a nonlinear effect; the strongest men were the most attractive in all samples.
The authors of the study also found that that there was no statistically significant portion of the female sample that had a preference for weaker looking men when evaluating male bodily attractiveness.
Weight is unattractive after controlling for how strong a man looks...this is consistent with the hypothesis that women's mate choice mechanisms respond to muscle mass positively but large stores of body fat negatively.
2. TINDER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the Tinder results of two buff dudes, none of them facially graceful. We will find out how well a muscle-bound body does in online dating.
-The first buff dude got +99 likes in less than 72 hrs (
https://archive.is/E1WZQ)
-The second buff dude got +99 likes in 28 hrs (
https://archive.is/7IKtM)
This means that, even though onlide dating is about female choice, and none of the profiles were facially appealling, they got carried by their bodies. Therefore, you can reap the benefits of the Girth Theory through online dating as well, it's not limited to real life enviroments.
. PHOTOFEELER EXPERIMENTS
We'll look at the results of buff and ottermode dudes on Photofeeler, none of them facially appealing.
We will find out how much a muscle-bound body adds to your overall attractiveness.
The first buff dude got a score of 8.0
The second buff dude got a score of 7.5
The first ottermode dude got a score of 7.8
The second ottermode dude got a score of 8.1
As we can see, there were no significant differences between the ratings of the buff and ottermode bodies.
Besides, all of them got their attractiveness boosted by their bodies (they instantly got into the top 20-25% of men) and, as they all got relatively high scores, this means their physiques were alluring to a significant portion of women, not to a small subset of women who crave muscle-bound men above everything else.
4. CONCLUSIONS
In real life, the main predictor of mating succes is upper body musculature, not facial looks. Moreover, upper body musculature significantly boosts your attractiveness, to the point that upper body musculature efectively allows you to compete with other men in online dating. Lastly, upper body musculature is not a zero sum game, so you can have a smaller, yet still muscle-bound body, and still reap the benefits of the Girth Theory.