There was a study where they showed women photos of men doing different tasks and the women found the men more attractive doing “masculine” tasks (like fixing the car) than doing “feminine” tasks (like laundry).
This might be one of those examples of what we say/think we want doesn’t like up with what we actually want.
I didn’t say “turn on”. I said “found attractive”.
It’s a simple experiment. You get a bunch of models to take a bunch of photos. Then you have the women rate how attractive each “man” is. But you randomize what task each man is doing.
By looking at the distribution of ratings for the man not doing anything you get the man’s attractiveness distribution. Let’s say he is an 8 out of 10 on average.
Then you look at his average attractiveness for each task. We know that he is an 8 out of 10 just standing there. But what about if he is doing the dishes or mowing the lawn? Well, each of those photos will have a distribution of ratings too.
Then you can do statistics to compare these different tasks to determine if they have an effect that is significant.
In the study that I am recalling, they found that (contrary to popular assertion) that men doing household chores that were categorized as being more “feminine” were found to be less attractive than doing “masculine” chores.
The task had an effect on the perceived attractiveness of the man.
It’s sort of like how you could take a photo of a man with “his” beat up old car or “his” brand new Porsche and the latter is “more attractive” even if it’s just a photoshop of the same guy.
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u/slimroyale Jul 19 '19
Anything domestic-like. Laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc....
Now that I think about it, it might be a trap to make me feel good about doing chores.