User blog comment:Mrdaimion/Rant: Why Nice Guys Finish Last/@comment-1844926-20120702013533/@comment-1874924-20120704171503

OK, there's enough error here to go around. I have discussed MrD's questionable assumptions and conclusions in another thread.

Sunny, while it's true that men are attracted to women with healthy-looking breasts, the "bigger is better" mentality seems to be cultural than biological. American women get their breasts surgically enlarged to the point where European women go under the knife to get their breasts reduced.

OHF, you don't seem to be considering instinctual/subconscious responses. And what is the primary purpose of sexual attraction, if not to insure the perpetuation of the species?

That said, men are known to be less selective than women in these matters, probably because an unwise choice carries less potential harm for a man. (It's the women who get pregnant, after all, and a man produces millions of sperm cells every day.) A recent study showed that, protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, it is about looks as far as men are concerned. This study involved a number of people "speed dating", where people talk to many potential dates for a few minutes each, and afterwards select those whom they'd like to follow up with. (If a man selects a woman who also selects him, then contact information is exchanged.) The study found that the men generally had minimum standards for physical attractiveness, which naturally varied from one man to the next, and selected nearly all women who met that threshold. The women did not show a similar pattern, or did to a much lesser degree. This is consistent with the fact that men are more visually oriented than women, whereas women are more tactilely (touch) oriented.