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    Default Interesting article about bad boy/alphas(includes some phero info)

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    Why Are Many Women Attracted to the Bad Boy Type?
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    www.SixWise.com

    Why is it that so many women are

    attracted to the "bad boy" types … the ones that mothers have long been warning daughters to

    avoid?

    "There is just SOMETHING about these guys that draws you in, even as your head tells you to

    "beware"!" says Toni Coleman, a relationship coach in Virginia.
    It happens to both young and old.

    According to a survey by Harlequin publishers of nearly 1,000 U.S. women:
    • 21 percent of

      women 35 and older would rather take a chance with a bad boy than date someone slow and steady
    • 31

      percent of women with children younger than 18 would take a chance with a bad boy (compared with 16 percent

      of women without kids)
    Ironically, if you ask a woman what she is looking for in a man, she will

    most likely not describe any of the characteristics of a typical "bad boy," which often resembles confidence

    that borders on (or steps way over the border on) cockiness, arrogance and machismo.
    "A Bad Boy

    exudes untamed masculinity, independence and confidence," says Michael Fitzgerald, author and

    relationship correspondent for AskMen.com, "To women, these traits -- especially confidence -- are an

    aphrodisiac."
    But why?


    "Dominant" Men Smell Better


    At least, that's the case when women are ovulating. A study by Prague researchers asked 65

    women to rate the smells of 48 men (by smelling cotton pads that had been worn in their armpits for 24

    hours). The men had assessed how dominant they felt beforehand.

    Each woman

    rated the scent of 10 pads on the basis of intensity, sexiness and masculinity. Women who were at the most

    fertile stage of their menstrual cycle were more likely to rate the odor of the dominant men as

    sexy.

    Said researcher Dr. Craig Roberts, "There seems to be some sort of

    physiological mechanism that directs women to indicators of good genes. The offspring of such a coupling

    would therefore be likely to have better genes."



    An Attraction to the

    'Other' Extreme

    The bad-boy attraction that some women feel may also stem from a desire to taste

    a more risky side of life -- one they themselves don't want to pursue, just experience.
    Said

    Professor Petruska Clarkson, a consultant psychologist and relationship psychotherapist, " … There has

    always been a strong sexual attraction to men who are so-called 'bad boys'."
    Speaking of an extreme

    (and much more uncommon) example of "bad-boy" attraction, some women even write letters to convicted

    serial killers in prison.

    "Villains capture the imagination. Human beings are interested in those who live

    by extremes since they often do what other, more ordinary mortals, cannot bear to think of themselves

    capable [of doing]," Clarkson said.


    But Do Nice Guys Really Finish Last?
    Attraction is

    one thing. A life-long commitment is another. When it comes to marriage, do women still prefer the bad boys?

    Probably not, as most women are looking for commitment, loyalty and trust from their potential mate --

    none of which are bad-boy traits.
    As it turns out, at least one study by researchers at the

    University of Pécs in Hungary found that women actually marry men who look like their fathers.
    "Our

    results support the notion of a long-lasting effect of attachment during childhood on later mating

    preferences," said the researchers. According to their findings, people make a mental model of their

    opposite-sex parent's appearance and then seek it out later in life.
    So what are women really

    looking for? You may be surprised to hear that it's the same thing as men. Harlequin's international

    survey found that the most important trait in a mate -- to both men and women in the United States -- is a

    sense of humor.

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    The reason that women go for bad

    boys is because bad boys treat women normally, they never put women on pedestals & they have the courage to walk

    away from beautiful women. They have high self confidence.

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    "example of "bad-boy"

    attraction, some women even write letters to convicted serial killers in prison. "

    There's more to this than

    meets the eye. I read a long while ago that women who are into this kind of thing, including not just writing but

    visiting, were generally women who had been physically abused in the past by men that they could love. The theory

    was that, "ok, I can love this guy because he's a very bad boy but he can't hit me, he's locked up".
    There is a cure for electile dysfuntion!!!!

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    I guess it's pretty much like

    being a critic ... they take things that are so simple and make it complicated to keep their job and to have a

    job.

    Example: If anyone watched the NBA Playoff game last night ... all day long there's been talk about

    something being a foul ... still, had the refs seen that the ball had hit the rim, which would have let the Lakers,

    pretty much, run the clock out instead of shooting quickly because there was .2 seconds left because the clock

    didn't reset because they missed the ball hiting the rim.

    I said all that to say ... BAD BOYS = DRAMA, and for

    some reason, GOD planted lots of drama-wires in women, and they have to have it, or else!

    And the only

    woman that belongs on a pedestal is a mother ... unless your woman/wife/lover pulls a pedestal right next to hers

    for you to stand on.

    Look around ... DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA ... it's the key!
    Never argue with ignorant people! They pull you down to THEIR level, and then they BEAT YOU with experience. Who said that!? I don't know, but tis gold I tell'ya!!

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    21% and 31%.... hmm isn't

    that the minority?

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    I don't think androstenone

    necessarily = "alpha male". If anything I think androsterone would be closer to that. Usually an alpha male in a

    group is the older, more restrained individual that a group trusts to lead them.

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