Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel.
If you're new here, I'm Courtney Ryan, and today we're going to be talking about traits that attract women according to science.
Women are obviously attracted to certain features that men have.
This is nothing new here the same way that you guys are naturally attracted to features that women have.
Again, nothing new, but don't get it twisted.
This is not all that matters when it comes to attraction and what women look for.
There is far more to consider than how chiseled your abs and jawline are, I promise.
So in this video, I'm going to be talking about traits that attract women.
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All right So I'm gonna go through a couple of traits and then I'm actually gonna go through an article with you guys at the end
And we're gonna see what science says about attracting women number one direct and decisive
Women love a man who can take the lead be direct take charge.
I it probably seems like we don't because of social media and everyone acting like we don't like that but we do.
Being direct shows confidence and security in yourself and being direct is very different than being aggressive.
I a lot of times people talk about toxic masculinity and being direct is seen as a bad thing because people think that it means that
you're aggressive but that is not true at all.
Confident men are able to pursue women and go after what they want.
A guy who goes after what he wants is sexy and almost all girls that are into guys want to be
being direct includes honesty authenticity and being able to express yourself assertively again assertively and aggressively are very different things.
When a guy takes the lead an initiative it makes the girl feel safe and secure and allows her to embrace her femininity.
Of course women have to put in the work too and I'm not saying that you guys should be bending over backwards
for someone who isn't willing to do that for you too but it's sexy and attractive when a man puts effort in and shows interest.
Women are drawn to confidence,
a sense of humor and success all of which require a man to straightforward and open women like a man who leads plain and simple number two we
have protect women like to feel safe as I mentioned physically mentally and
emotionally I want to feel secure said every woman ever and I've said in past
videos that women like to feel secure and this is why women often go for someone
who is financially independent or financially
stable because they want that security factor when it comes to money even if she is well off financially on her own.
And my friends is where hypergamy comes into play.
And done an entire video about it if you want to go check it out.
I think I explained things a little bit further than I will here today.
But speaking here this is a huge reason why women tend to go after men who are financially interested.
Independent who are financially stable even if they make enough money on their own because they want their partner to be as well
Now this is not the only reason why women go after men who are financially stable
There's a big difference between wanting to feel safe and secure in a relationship
And you know build your wealth together and only going after someone because of their wealth there are gold diggers out
there and there's a huge difference between the two that I'm talking about here.
Evolutionary psychologists say this is because women want a man who can provide for them just to break it down plain and simple here.
And I also want to highlight that there's far more that goes into this protect category here than just finances.
Again, this is also physically and emotionally.
I don't want you guys to think that finances are the only way that you can protect someone,
especially in today's day and age that makes absolutely no sense when a woman is able to make enough money for herself.
I think a lot more goes into it than just what you can provide for someone financially.
Are you a man of integrity?
I there are so many different things that fall into this.
And those are the traits that make men at attractive to women, it's not just being rich or having the most money in the world.
Of course those men probably do find it easier with women because there are women out
there who are only looking for that and who only care about that.
when we're not just talking about the gold diggers of the world,
women want to feel safe physically,
emotionally and financially and it's important be able to provide a balance of all of those and not just finances.
I know that times are changing and things are changing and people probably have mixed feelings
about this one but I think our evolutionary past continues to bring us to
this point of wanting to feel safe and secure and protected by our partner even
though we are able to provide a lot of those things for ourselves.
Number three is purpose and purpose is what oozes confidence and it's not necessarily about what your purpose is
It's more about just having a purpose a guy who is striving to be his best self and reach his full potential is attractive
stands out to women this could be in regards to your physical fitness getting a degree starting a business Whatever it might be purpose.
partner, a better friend, and just a better person in general.
Be a man with the plan and understand that having a purpose creates confidence, it builds your self-esteem, it discipline.
When you create discipline and you keep promises that you make to yourself, you boost your confidence in your self-esteem.
And you become a better you for everyone around you and yourself.
And number four, intelligence.
Again, this is nothing new here.
It's attractive when a guy knows what he's doing and knows what he's talking about.
If you can bring something to a conversation,
whether it be passing on knowledge,
the curiosity to learn about what the other person is talking about, it makes you more interesting and magnetic to them.
Which in return leads to a better and more meaningful conversation that she's going to walk away from, feeling like you are the bee's knees.
So while I was doing research with this video,
I found something that was really interesting and I wanted to share it with all of you.
So it says, according to a 2007 study performed in Germany, men placed far greater importance on the attractiveness of their mates than females.
And while women were still drawn to attractive men,
they were more likely to consider dating less attractive individuals if they possessed other qualities they prized.
Another study this time in 2013 demonstrated that mate selection among women is highly In the experiment,
men and women were told to evaluate one another's attractiveness during a speed dating event.
The results showed that women with higher BMI's, body mass index, or lower facial attractiveness were less selective than their thinner, more attractive counterparts.
Furthermore, these women became even less selective when there were more attractive females in the room.
In this case, it was HER attractiveness, not his, that influenced her selection.
I thought that was so interesting.
While looks are important to women, they base their mate selection on more contextual factors.
Surprising examples include the availability of competition and their estimates of their own attractiveness.
Which I thought was so interesting because I always get the comments of, you know, women care more about looks than men do.
And I think it comes across that way often because women seem to have far more options than men do,
especially when we're talking about things like online dating or, you know, social media in general.
I do think that online dating and social media have increased the importance of attractiveness.
I really do think think about other things more so than the way that a man looks and look being
attractive definitely helps you find a partner again especially because looks
are becoming more important as we spend more time on dating websites and social
media where the way that someone looks is like the first thing you notice and
you don't really have a lot of other things to go off of besides the way that
someone looks your first impression when you're online is much different than it would be if you're meeting someone in person.
When you're in person, you get to experience someone's mannerisms and their personality and they can be more charismatic in other ways.
And you're noticing things that go farther than just the way that they look.
So this is another reason why I think it's so much better for you guys to be meeting people.
In-person versus online because unless you are a very attractive person online or you take incredibly good photos
It's tough out there and I understand that as a woman
And so I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you and say that looks don't help
But I will sit here and be honest with you and say that they are not everything
Especially if we're talking about And I've had the question come up a lot of what do women care more about looks, game, or status?
And I would argue that looks are at the bottom of the list, again, if we're talking about in-person interaction.
When you're thinking about something that's online, obviously, looks are going to be at the top of the list, looks in wealth, probably.
And then once you get your foot in the door,
then the game comes into play where you can kind of banter and go back and forth and all of that.
I just think the whole thing is really interesting.
I'm very into human interaction and why we think the way we do and why we are attracted to certain people and why we aren't attracted to other people.
So it's really interesting for me to talk about in videos like this.
So I also found this article that I want to go through with.
This article is nine science-backed ways men can appear more attractive to women.
The one is look for the universal signs of flirtation.
Rutgers anthropologist and best-selling author Helen E.
Fisher that from the depth of the Amazon to the cafes of Paris, women signal interest with a remarkably similar sequence.
As she shared at Psychology Today, it goes like this.
First, the woman smiles at her admirer and lifts her eye bow in a swift jerky motion as she opens her eyes wide to gaze at him.
Then she drops her eyelids, tilts her head down, and to the side, and looks away.
Frequently, she also covers her face with her hands, giggling nervously as she retreats behind her palms.
This sequential flirting gesture is so distinctive that evil Ebes felt,
I hope I'm saying that right, was convinced it is innate, a human female courtship ploy that evolved eons ago to signal sexual interest.
So watch for the signals I mentioned before in past videos about how to tell someone is attracted to you.
That's more of a signal of attraction, not necessarily what women are attracted to.
Look for someone in your league.
Men women are attracted to people who are as attractive as they are.
If you go for someone roughly equally to you in attractiveness, it avoids two things.
If they are much better looking than you, you are worried about them going off and having a fair, as says.
If they are much less attractive, you are worried that they could do better.
In University of North Carolina sociologist Glenn Elder found that looks and wealth tend to find one another.
Namely, good-looking women tended to settle down with less attractive but wealthier men.
Again, another reason I tell you, looks don't matter as much as you think.
Since then, it's become a well-confirmed finding in the social sciences.
a 2010 study found that men pictured with a silver-bently continental GT were way more attracted than those pictured with a red Ford Fiesta ST and a 2014 study
found that men pictured in luxury apartments were more attracted than those in a control group.
Evolutionary psychologists say it's because women want a mate to provide for them.
Psychologists call it the George Clooney effect.
As the 2010 study of 3,770 people showed,
women often preferred older men as they become more financially independent, they like older guys even more.
We think this suggests greater financial independence gives women more confidence in partner choices and attracts them to powerful, attractive older men.
Evolutionary psychologists say that younger women and older men often pair up because while fertility only lasts from puberty to menopause in women,
it starts at puberty and can extend long into midlife for many men, and they have a greater opportunity to accumulate status and resources.
Next is grow a light beard.
While some claim the beard trend is over, the research says it's not.
According to a 2013 Australian study, the most attractive beard length is heavy stubble, which comes after about 10 days of growth.
Right now, at this point in time, June 2022, it might be a mustache because of the new Top Gun movie.
Just Facial hair correlates not only with maturity and masculinity, but also with dominance and a an intermediate level of beardiness is most attractive.
It only takes a bit of maintenance to keep that 10-day beard all the time.
I actually do agree with that.
Also, the older I get, the more I'm attracted to facial hair.
I remember in high school,
I really didn't like facial hair at all, and I was really into, you know, the baby face and clean shave-in men.
I do like facial hair, and I still like clean shave-in, but we love a little 5 o'clock shadow.
Build muscle but not too much.
A University of California at Los Angeles study found that women are more likely to have short-term relationships with
Sexual characteristics like masculinity are cues of genes that increase offspring viability or reproductive success less muscular men were thought to be better fit for long-term relationships
You know what guys when I did my street interviews and I was talking to those Italian girls one of them said
You you date the guy with the six pack you marry the man with the dad bod That's kind of funny.
The next one is be kind One of the most robust findings in psychology is the halo effect.
A bias where you unconsciously take one aspect of somebody as a proxy for their overall character.
It is why we think beautiful people are good at their jobs even when they aren't.
The Hill effect also works in other ways, too.
A 2014 Chinese study found that people who had positive personality traits like kindness
and honesty were rated as more attractive than those with negative personality traits like being evil or mean.
Even though beauty is an assessment of fitness value, there is no reason why assessment of fitness needs to be purely physical.
Being kind makes you look like you'd be a stable, worthwhile mate.
Talk about your emotions.
Oh, the man of fear is not going to...
Contrary to the 1950's ideal of the aloof breadwinner, women are into men who can talk about their feelings.
When men are vulnerable, women find them more desirable both emotionally and sexually.
Being vulnerable will not hurt men's masculinity just the opposite.
Emotionally, well-rounded men are more desirable to women and are ultimately likely to be emotionally stable and
better long-term partners than men who are closed up and unwilling to share intimate partners.
I've done an entire video about vulnerability when it comes to attracting
women and just in general because I think there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to vulnerability with men.
So definitely be sure to go check that out.
I'm not gonna get super far in detail with it here because this video is already way too long.
Okay, Halle and I reacted to an article and one of the things it said to do was wear red and both of us were kind of like, I
don't know if I've ever seen a guy wear red and any time I've seen a guy wear red
it was always like the black suit with the red tie or red bow tie which neither one of us liked the look.
of, so the red thing is interesting, but I'm going to read this.
A cross-cultural study with participants from China, England, Germany, and the U.S.
found that women are most attracted to men wearing red.
It's been a symbol of status since at least the Roman times when the most powerful men were called Koshina.
So I know for a fact, red works for women.
Men a woman in a red dress.
I think that's like the most polarizing thing a woman can wear.
So it's interesting that women feel the same about men.
I don't know if I feel that way.
I need to Okay that wraps up the article.
I would say I agreed with almost all of those.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments below and just your general opinion on everything I've talked about in the video today.
I would love for you guys to share your personal experiences.
What do you find attracts women the most?
I think this is something that will continue to change but it always somehow finds its way back to our evolutionary past in some
capacity which is interesting to think about considering how much things have actually changed.
I think in the comments below,
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