The world would probably be a better place if people were attracted to others based only on personality, but in reality, looks matter to most. Surveys show a lot of people find the same traits attractive.
According to several polls, these are the top five features people are most attracted to in a partner:
- Smile – It may be the most universally mentioned feature people consider important to physical attraction. According to Match.com’s Singles in America poll of more than 5-thousand unmarried people, most singles judge their date by “the big three” traits – teeth, followed by grammar and confidence.
- Eyes – A survey of 1,000 people from FastLife.com asked about their biggest physical turn-ons and turn-offs and both women and men agree that “eyes are the most important facial feature in a potential partner.”
- Stomach – In that same poll, a man’s stomach was deemed the most attractive non-facial feature for women. Coming in first with the men was a woman’s booty, but it was followed closely by the stomach.
- Breasts – In news that’s not surprising to anyone, a survey of more than 6-thousand “Men’s Health” Twitter followers finds the physical feature they find most attractive is boobs.
- Hair – According to data from 81-thousand user profiles on the dating site Plenty of Fish, a man’s hair color is pretty important to women. Their research shows men who have brown hair get 20% more messages than men with any other hair color, followed by blonds, and it turns out not having hair works for a lot of women, as baldies get the third most messages.
