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A recent study conducted by researchers at Chapman University in California revealed the link between a person’s height, body mass, and their number of sexual partners. The findings of the research, which involved 60,058 heterosexual men and women, showed that shorter males had fewer sexual partners compared to individuals of average height. Meanwhile, underweight men and women had lower than average number of sex partners.
Furthermore, the results of the research revealed that men with average height to extremely tall height get to share the bed between one and three more sex partners compared to shorter than average men. According to Dr. David Frederick, a psychology professor at the university, the findings of the study prove that height is indeed an important factor in the “mating market.” “Research has repeatedly shown that women prefer men who are relatively taller than they are,” Dr. Frederick explained.
Frederick considers the possibility that women have a certain minimum threshold of height after which they will mark a man as a potential partner in bed. He also stressed that the “relatively limited variation in sex partner number for men across the height continuum” is hard to explain. With regard to men’s body mass index (BMI), the research revealed that normal weight men and overweight men had the most number of sexual partners, while underweight men reported the least. Underweight women, on the other hand, had remarkably fewer sexual partners than other women. He explained: “They may be highly dissatisfied with their weight and suffering from anorexia and thus not motivated to show their bodies; additionally, being underweight is associated with a relatively high mortality rate and/or they could be suffering from a variety of ailments that cause weight loss and thus have fewer sex partners because they are dealing with serious health issues.”
