SECRET TO HOT SEX IS UN‘LOCK’ED
‘All about good hair’
Call it a mane attraction. Women with longer, “higherquality hair” have hotter, busier sex lives, according to researchers in South Korea.
Their study, published last month in the academic journal Evolutionary Psychology, set out to determine if women’s hair has any connection to the frequency of sex in married couples.
It asked 204 heterosexual married couples from South Korea in their 30s to rate various factors including: their own hair lengths, hair quality, physical attractiveness, sexual desire and sexual frequency.
The results: men are horny for hair.
Women with longer, healthier locks were deemed hotter by their husbands — and were having more sex as a result.
In addition, wives with higherquality hair were more satisfied with their marriages, the study found.
The academics noted that some of the most feminine figures in art were blessed with cascades of tumbling tresses, including Rapunzel and Venus from Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus.”
“Such depictions of women with long, silky hair create an image of womanliness, which may be alluring to the perceiver owing to the intricate sense of femininity displayed,” the team, led by Jeong Eun Cheon, declared.
“The image of an ideal woman often involves her having long, silky hair,” they continued. “However, the dearth of psychological research on hair limits the understanding of how women’s hair functions in romantic relationships.”
Less key for men
After calculating the survey results, the researchers found that: “Men found women with longer hair to be more attractive, which consequently resulted in heightened sexual desire among men,’” the team stated.
“This heightened sexual desire was again associated with a higher likelihood of more frequent sexual intercourse within the couples,” said the researchers.
Meanwhile, the women involved in the study were also asked questions about their husband’s hair.
While it may be assumed that men with thick hair similarly send “evolutionary messages” about attractiveness and fertility, the results revealed that there was no correlation between a man’s mane and his sex life.
So while that may be welcome news for balding blokes, the academics did admit that more research needs to be done.
“Future research should explore how the importance of hair quality or length may vary across different demographics, motivations, or stages of life,” Cheon and her team stated.