Why Do Women Fall For the Tall?

Women seem to prefer taller men and several scientific studies have backed up that notion. But why? And where does it all leave women's love for the high heel?
VICTORIA BECKHAM recently had to use her husband as a crutch because of them, Gwyneth Paltrow revitalised her image wearing them, and Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw is clearly totally in love with them: we're talking ultra-high-heels here. Ladies Christian Louboutin has just announced his plans to feed the frenzy by producing the first pair of 8in heels in mainstream fashion. Ouch.

A lot of men clearly find such vampish style provocative and attractive, but it occurs to me that, if this sort of footwear makes its wearer so desirable, where does that leave all the short guys?

We girls like our men to be taller than us. A friend of mine currently scouring dating websites for Mr Right tells me she can't bear the idea of being with a man shorter than her and she rejects the profile of any man under six feet – she's 5ft 10in. But, by my calculation, that means if she wears heels any bigger than two inches she'll be getting uncomfortable with a six-footer. Even wearing Beckham's relatively diminutive five inchers would put most guys out of the running.

Several scientific studies back up the notion that women prefer taller men. But why? What's so great about tall men? Looking back over time, as our preferences were evolving, it is likely that tall men would have had an advantage in competition with others and they would have been better at bringing home the bacon.

Women may also have wanted a big, strapping mate to protect them and their children from harassment by other males.

Even today tall guys seem to have an advantage – they tend to do better in their careers, have higher status and earn more money than their more vertically challenged peers.

If you find yourself attracted to tall men, though, beware; a US study found that taller men were also more likely to get divorced and remarry, and the same research shows this translates into a higher number of children fathered by the loftier chaps. Women, on the other hand, tend to have more babies if they are slightly shorter than the average height of just under 5ft 4in for women, according to another piece of research.

Since men are likely to choose partners shorter than themselves, this could partly come down to a relative shortage of potential boyfriend material for tall women.

The effect of all this has been for the heights of men and women to be pulled in opposite directions over time, meaning that men tend to be a few inches taller than women, on average.

If we cast a glance at our primate cousins, we can see that in gorillas, for example, the males are whoppers – twice the size of females, their stature being driven by the need for males to fight fiercely for exclusive sexual access to a harem of females. In the graceful and relatively peaceful gibbons, on the other hand, males and females are exactly the same size and live in monogamous pairs.

Humans have a degree of body-size difference somewhere in between gorillas and gibbons, so you can draw your own conclusions about what our sexual proclivities should be.

So used are we to men being taller than their wives or girlfriends that we make a huge fuss when some high-profile short guy hooks up with a girl that can look down on him. We wanted to know, for example, did Tom Cruise stand on a box for his marriage portrait with Katie Holmes, who is a good two inches taller than him?

And then there's France's mini-president Nicolas Sarkozy with his willowy wife, Carla Bruni, towering over him even in her flats. No more Louboutins for her, then. Why did Carla go for such a little bloke?

Well, if guys are on the short side, they need to have something else to bring to the mating marketplace. For Sarkozy, it's power. For Cruise it's money. And Rasputin (lover of the Russian queen, according to Boney M, remember), it was his, er, manly endowment.



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One In Three Women Who Date Online Have Sex On The 1st Date!

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Research Study Reveal Women Love Sex As Much As Men The title statistic was determined by Dr. Paige Padgett at the University of Texas. Padgett’s 2007 study entitled “Personal Safety and Sexual Safety for Women Using Online Personal Ads” was published in a widely respected journal of the National Sexuality Research Center (Research & Social Policy Journal).

Dr. Padgett’s research involved seven hundred forty (740) women who had put dating profiles online seeking men. The result of the study: Earthshattering!! Thirty-three percent (33%) of the women daters had sex on the 1st date. Even more shocking, seventy-seven percent (77%) of them didn’t use a condom.

Virtual Intimacy Theory Padgett’s conclusion was not that these women are merely sluts. Rather she discovered that women who would otherwise be cautious may engage in unprotected sex because they are lulled into a sense of virtual intimacy.

Dr. Padgett determined that “virtual intimacy” arose as a by-product of the frequent exchanges between the women and the men they had sex with on the first date. Before meeting face-to-face, the women exchanged information through e-mail and telephone calls about their history, likes & dislikes, and even their sexual preferences.

This Padgett says created the “virtual intimacy” a sense that a relationship might or might not exist but may encourage sexual intimacy at a faster rate than what would develop through conventional methods.

So What Does This Mean For Guys? The take home message for guys: Start Online Dating Now. It’s cheaper than clubbing & bar hopping and you’ll get laid more often on a 1st date, but definitely use condoms!

Applying Common Sense To Padgett’s Study Let’s apply common sense and give women the credit they deserve. Women who date online know exactly what they want. They want to find attractive mates that meet their dating criteria. They select one or several potential mates from the endless number that constantly email them. Then they asked a series questions to determine whether this particular male meets their criteria. If so, it’s on!

If you scrutinize the data you’ll see what’s really occurring here. The women in Dr. Padgett’s study are the ones speeding up the sexual relationship. The women in her study (and all online women daters) try to gather as much info about their potential mates as possible. And they do all of this info aggregation before meeting face-to-face, by email or over the telephone.

Why? For one reason: to allow themselves to participate in naked time as soon as possible. When a woman finally convinces herself that a man meets her dating qualifications she will have sex with him. In Padgett’s study, the women had decided after reading email and having telephone conversations that they would sleep with their dates on their first meeting because the man in question had met her qualifications or at least enough of them for sex!

How To Use Padgett’s Study To sum up, women love sex as much as men. They, however, take a substantially different approach than men. And this is the most important fact that I’ve learned from my own online dating experiences, which is supported by Padgett’s work: Women must first convince themselves that you meet their dating qualifications and that you are a Quality Man.

A basic misunderstanding of this factor causes so many men to shoot themselves in the foot at this point. They choose to believe that need one or a combination of the following: (a) fame; (b) money; or (c) power to be a dating success. This is just plain false. The secret to my online dating prowess: Being successful with women online means quite simply, not disqualifying yourself. Women have all kinds of questions, yes. Women have dating criteria, yes...



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