Has the husky voice of a man ever turned you on so bad it can elicit uncontrollable shivers through your spine?
Well, it turns out that there's probably an evolutionary reason why women find men with very masculine voices especially irresistible. A study just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society has found a correlation between perceived masculinity in a male's voice to actual macho-ness in terms of physical strength. In the study, male and female subjects were asked to listen to speakers from four distinct language groups and asked to evaluate their upper-body strength based on their voice alone. Results showed that male speakers perceived as physically strong actually fared better than their counterparts in tests of hand grip, chest strength, shoulder strength, and bicep circumference. This, the subjects gleaned just from hearing the males say “When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.”
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Well, it turns out that there's probably an evolutionary reason why women find men with very masculine voices especially irresistible. A study just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society has found a correlation between perceived masculinity in a male's voice to actual macho-ness in terms of physical strength. In the study, male and female subjects were asked to listen to speakers from four distinct language groups and asked to evaluate their upper-body strength based on their voice alone. Results showed that male speakers perceived as physically strong actually fared better than their counterparts in tests of hand grip, chest strength, shoulder strength, and bicep circumference. This, the subjects gleaned just from hearing the males say “When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.”
