The bad news is that these stronger physiques roughly line up with the natural muscular potential of many guys. 49% of men said they wanted to have a “strong” body. It seems that men-both gay and straight-prefer greater degrees of muscularity in themselves, too. If we compare this against what women find most attractive, it seems that gay men do indeed prefer more muscular bodies than women. I’m adding the labels now to make it easier to discuss the findings.) When we asked men which degree of muscularity they found most attractive, 46% of them rated the “strong” physique as the most attractive, 30% preferred the “athletic” physique, and 22% preferred the most muscular physique.
They fear they won’t be able to get muscular enough to be attractive. We’ve had clients tell us gay men prefer more muscular bodies than women do. This is the question that made me want to do this survey. What Degree of Muscularity Do Gay Men Prefer? This might line up well with people rating photos on a dating app, but it might apply less to how someone looks when wearing clothes, under different lighting, or when they aren’t posing. The guys filling out this survey might have found all of the bodies attractive, just in varying degrees.įinally, a limitation with all of these physique surveys is showing people posed photos and asking them what they prefer. Most people are attracted to more than one thing. It’s also worth pointing out that we asked guys to select the most attractive body in the spread. That’s not necessarily representative of the overall gay community. Most of the guys who filled out our survey are naturally thin they exercise, lead a healthy lifestyle, and eat a good diet. We specialize in helping skinny guys build muscle. For example, we asked, “Which degree of muscularity do you find most attractive?” and then showed them this spread: To do this, I drew up some bodies and then surveyed 102 gay and bisexual men, asking them to choose which of those bodies they found most attractive. The goal was to arm ourselves with information we can actually use. We were more interested in aspects of our physiques that we can change through diet and exercise, less about things like height, bone structure, and insertions. This is an attractiveness survey, but there’s a slant to it.