Women are more attracted to men with facial hair than without

Fifty-four percent of women polled said they preferred a man with facial hair. Only one in three said that they preferred a clean-shaven look, while the remaining 14% didn’t mind. Seventy-six per cent of the women who admitted to a preference for facial hair said that they found a man with facial hair ‘more masculine,’ and subsequently more attractive. One in ten admitted that they thought clean-shaven men ‘often looked young.’ Two thirds of the women who said they favored facial hair said that they most liked all-over stubble, while just 12% preferred a beard. Nineteen per cent said that they most liked a mustache when it came to facial hair, but just 6% favored goatees. Just over half (51%) said that they preferred a man with hair on his chest and back, with 27% favoring a hairless, or waxed body. Of those who preferred a man with hair on his chest and back, just over two fifths explained that they found a smooth-bodied man ‘too feminine.’ Over half of the women who took part in the study admitted that they had dated a man who disliked his body hair.