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Old 01-23-2008, 11:54 PM
VandalSquirrel VandalSquirrel is offline
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Originally Posted by preciousjeni View Post
I can't handle men shorter than I am (5'6). My husband is in the range of 6'3 or 6'4. There a biological factor to all of this - it's not just preference. Instinctively, heterosexual women seek men who are larger than they are. The bigger the man, the more protection he can provide...or so our instincts would have us believe. But, then again, if a man is a giant (clinically), it starts going the other direction because we instinctively see that as abnormal.
I recently took an upper division physical anthropology class and the information we were presented with was that people sought mates of similar height and other characteristics (biological and social) about 85% of the time.
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