Daily Smart Fact #12: Go ahead and sleep around, ladies! Men don’t care if you’re slutty.

Key Takeaway: “Researchers at the University of Iowa find that men increasingly are interested in intelligent, educated women who are financially stable — and chastity isn’t an issue.” In fact, compared to 1939 survey results in which men desired chastity above intelligence in women, it was valued dead last in 2008.

I wrote a post on how women’s preferences for male physical attributes changed based on their menstrual cycle about a week ago and realized that I should probably put similar scrutiny on men’s preferences for women.  What good is the feminist movement if I don’t give some equal air time to men’s preferences in women? 🙂 Interestingly enough, I couldn’t find anything that seemed to be consistent from one source to the other.  But here’s what I did find:

• According to Live Science, men valued intelligence, education, and financial stability the most in looking for their opposite sex partners.
• Men also apparently appreciate heavy-set women in the looks department and have foot fetishes, according to this article based on search engine queries.
• Men want to be taller than their women, or at least more powerful according to this study (although the actual experiment seems to be a little fishy).
• When given the option between a playboy centerfold and more “average shaped woman”, men prefer the average shaped woman. I’m dubious..but here’s the source.

Granted, I’m sure there’s a gazillion articles and resources out there that will have many different findings and I’m not going to deny that I’ve chosen these articles a bit…biasedly.  But I found these articles quite interesting and downright funny (foot fetishes, ha!) and wanted to share.  Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Thanks pingiwingi for the boob pic.