According to the latest survey results revealed Tuesday, men are more concerned with their partner's body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly. Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20 percent of women. Two-third of men also said they had fantasized about their partner's friends, while only one-third of women had done so.
James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen, which conducted the poll jointly with Cosmopolitan.com said, “Even as men are getting more comfortable with meeting their girlfriends online and less anxious about who she's 'friending' there, other romantic behaviors have proven to be timeless ones: chivalry isn't dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget.”
Results showed that while only 18 percent of women said they would want their mate to be better endowed, more than 51 percent of men said they wished they themselves were. On the other hand the survey also found 39 percent of men chose family as their top choice of the ultimate status symbol. By contrast, 43 percent of women selected a beautiful home, compared to only 6.5 percent of men. One-quarter of women named a successful partner as a top status symbol. But men were more likely to lie about the number of sex partners they had had (50 percent) than women (35 percent). Some 68% of the men who participated said they believe in the institution of marriage and plan to get married someday.
On a surprising note both men and women agreed on as-yet undeveloped male birth control pill. More than half of women would want their partner to take it, while more than two-thirds of men were ready for male birth control.
However some things change. More women, 38 percent, think each should pay their own way at dates versus 33 percent who think men should foot the bill. But 59 percent of men think they should cover the tab, at least until a relationship is established.
Nearly 80 percent of men said they feel cheated by the divorce courts. But more women feel the sexes receive equal treatment than those who agree the men get a raw deal. Women are also far less comfortable with their mates keeping in touch with their ex. More than two-thirds of men are okay with their partner friending an ex on Facebook, as opposed to 38 percent of women. But three-quarters of men surveyed said they consider sexting cheating. About half of the male respondents aged 15 to 28 were not comfortable with the idea of dating a woman with children. Men's discomfort with dating a mom dropped with each additional decade of age, falling below 15% of men aged 50. About 47% to 50% of men under age 30 were fine with dating a woman with children.
If they had to choose between having a child or a dog, men under age 20 would pick the dog by a tiny margin of 28% to 26%. Men between 35 and 50 wanted the child more than a puppy. About one-third of all men wanted both a child and a dog, while about 13% didn't want either creature in their house. If men could have only one child, apparently the desire for a boy was greater than that for a girl, but the older the men were, the less the gender of the child mattered.
To maintain a healthy relationship, about 12% of men under age 30 thought couples should have sex every day. More than 75% of men answering the survey thought couples should have sex several times each week. About 1% said sex once a month would be OK.
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