Maybe Modest Men Should Wear Red?

Maybe modest men in Rutgers should wear red to mitigate the sexual derision their diffidence generates?


Another study, this one from the University of Rochester, apparently a more nuanced and carefully correlated than the Rutgers study, shows that across cultures, continents and ethnicity, men who wear red are perceived by women to be more powerful and sexually attractive. (And it seems to be reciprocal: men like women in red)

Do with this what you will.

I had a friend who had been exposed to the ideas of Imago and How to Save Your Marriage by Becoming a Better Man sit on my front porch and expostulate, after having left his wife, that this whole concept about actually listening to women was great and powerful because the chicks dug it and he got laid more than he ever had before.

I was torn between calling him out to challenge him with the fact that the concepts of the book were not intended to be a Lothario’s guide, and between accepting with the thought that this isn’t how I thought he would begin to grow, but it was, nevertheless, a beginning. I went with the latter.

So, if you want to put on a red power tie before your next date, have at it, but if you start out your relationship with manipulation, I doubt very seriously you will ever find happiness through that relationship and ultimately isn’t that what we want?

Hat tip: Instapundit