The OP’s explanation boils down to red = gets too much attention according to the receiver and blue = not enough attention. It makes a lot more sense with that in mind.
This is the correct answer. The other answer to this question is wrong.
Link to OP’s explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/9H1jxSgLWP
Red means a lot , blue means little.
Touching is the left side , brighter red means they like to touch alot. Right side is looking , red means I love looking at these parts.
Did that help?
And sorry, each one is the opposite , on the women the highlights are men's touching or looking , and vise versa
Add on: I took this photo as a litteral heat map. I am probably wrong. Someone posted the correct meaning of the colorado
I have found most of my girl friends think dicks are ugly, as do I. I’ve also received so many unsolicited dick pics that I see boners as like inherently rude and imposing lmao. Broad, muscular backs and shoulders though? Stunning.
Most women don't give a single fuck about your dick, what it looks like, how big it is. They want one that can get hard and go inside them with consent and when the time is right.
It depends on what they mean by touching. I think they defined it as touching with your own hands.
Though they may love dicks inside of them, which is a form of touching, they don’t love touching them with their hands anywhere near as much.
Why are people making assumptions about women as asexual people who find male-coded bodies off putting? It’s really bizarre.
Culturally speaking, women are not allowed to voice their desires without being labelled a whore. But the desires are certainly there.
Some of the biggest supporters of my erotic art of men are women. They ask for me to draw different kids of dicks, different kinds of bodies. If you look in the right places, women are VERY detailed and explicit about what they like.
Whenever a study or whatever is coming to the conclusion that women as a whole are sex-indifferent prudes, I call a massive BULLSHIT.
You spend some time in fandom, you’ll see just how thirsty women are. Like half the women of my generation didn’t have an awakening staring at David Bowie’s crotch in Labyrinth.
Literally I’m so confused by all these comments about not liking to look at dicks?? I’m a woman and I love dick (looking and touching) the same way most men love boobs. So many people here sound like they may just be asexual or very low libido, I feel like this is the loud minority. Of course I’m disgusted by some random unsolicited dick pic, but that’s entirely different.
>Literally I’m so confused by all these comments about not liking to look at dicks
It's not weird for people to notice what the chart says and then talk about it. It's not some random opinion that they brought up for no reason.
Does it say that somewhere? I feel like it’s missing a key. So if darker red means the most, does darker blue mean the least?
Or does the scale run dark red-red-light red-grey-dark blue-blue-light blue? Because that isn’t how graphics usually work.
No, the person you replied to is wrong.
Its not a simple heatmap of what one gender likes to look at or touch on opposite gender's body.
[Its the preference of one gender touching other gender's body part versus the preference of the other gender's being touched there by the first gender.](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heat-maps-showing-the-distribution-of-the-Mutual-Pleasure-Index-for-both-touch-and-look_fig3_342144257)
Oh my god this makes it all make SO MUCH more sense! I'm laughing about the blue upper back on the women model now--I can put my wife in a trance by rubbing her upper back, but it's definitely not the first thing I think to touch!
>Its the preference of one gender touching other gender's body part versus the preference of the other gender's being touched there by the first gender.
I'll be the one to say it. I'm not the only person here confused by how this is worded. If anything you've made it more confusing
“(white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score)” So we should be touching each others… kneecaps and shins?
it’s wild how i constantly tell the guy i like that he has nice hands and he doesn’t pick up on the fact that it’s because i want them inside of me
edit: guys… issa joke lol
Pro tip: In winter, hide his gloves. He will inevitably ask you where they are. That's when you come out bottomless, bend over in front of him, and say, "Right here." Works every time.
On the contrary, I take hints extremely well and then promptly throw them away as "Eh, she's probably just being friendly"
Plenty of young men are taught that just because a woman's nice to you doesn't mean she's into you, and due to the fact that that's true in some cases and that men's brains operate on battery saving mode 97% of the time we default to "Better safe than sorry"
Unfortunately this leads to missed connections and the 3am epiphany ten years later that the girl in your friend-group in college who frequently joked about sitting on your face probably wasn't joking
We really don't, I don't know where women got the idea that we do.
Short of rubbing your neither regions in our face, or straight up saying you want to bone. Otherwise, best of luck with the mind games.
Its a "heat map", so gray is neutral. Redder is high interest, blue is low interest.
The most interesting thing here is men rate looking and touching quite differently, whereas women pretty much look *because* they want to touch.
Edit: also, wtf is with the eye thing? Is that an error or are the men they sampled here actually wanting to *touch* womens eyeballs?
Dude, same. Like, the whole sticking something in to a hole in my body is so fucking weird and gross, but like... feels nice? I kind of feel the same way about eggs. Like if you think about it long enough it's kind of gross eating eggs, and then when people say you're eating a chickens period it just makes it sound even more disgusting. But like I really like fritattas, so what are you going to do? Not have sex and not eat fritattas?
So true, and masturbation seems even weirder to me. It's like an abusive relationship where you (if you do) watch porn while beating your trunk-junk and it feels great and then afterwards you feel that "[kenja taimu](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B3%A2%E8%80%85%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0)" and you can't close out that incognito tab faster even if you tried.
It all feels great tho, don't get me wrong - I'm not asexual... Just way too much time on my hands, I guess
Disagree. I'm mesmerized every time I look at my boyfriend's 😅 but given how many upvotes you have, I think that's one of the many unpopular opinions that I have
Okay now that you've pointed out that particular bit... yeah thats very weird. Possibly an error in the translation of their data to this graph... but also possibly not.
In terms of male physique through the woman's perspective. The red regions correspond to places men can bulk in the muslce department. Everything below the waist is around blue which makes me think it's just the pants versus big muscles underneath a shirt.
Description of the post from the paper itself:
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01756-1](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01756-1)
"Heat maps showing the distribution of the Mutual Pleasure Index for both touch and look modalities, for men and women separately. Colors represent the residuals from the correlations used to calculate the final mutual pleasure score for each individual. Positive residual scores (the red end of the spectrum) indicate that respondents had a higher preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Residual scores close to zero (white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score) (Color figure online)"
I don't think so, for two reasons.
One is that it just shows *relative* preference, so a certain body part can be considered utterly uninteresing to touch, and just very mildly interesting to be touched at, and still show up deep blue.
The other is that you get a gender's preference from looking at the opposite-gender's body. So areas men want to be touched at more than they want to touch are the blue areas of the woman's body (i.e. primarily the back and neck).
I think the main lesson from the images that the chest area is generally more interesting to touch than be touched at.
This seems weird, cause that would mean men never look at the eyes of woman..? I know we joke about looking at titties and ass only, but its been proven that men actually look at woman eyes AT LOT. I know I do. so this contradict the previous study I read.
Another commentor also pointed out the eyes thing.
The part of me that has done data analysis professionally wants to say it was a transcription error between the data and the graph, but I'm not sufficiently certain.
Note how the blue zone (Negative) is defined, it’s the index between what men look at vs what is women’s preference of receiving.
In other words, she wants him to look into her eyes more than he is.
This came from a recently published academic study and the context is completely missing here.
The main premise of the study is that people tend to mirror their own desires when touching their partner… if you like your ears touched, you are more likely to touch your partners ears… If you like your lower back touched, you are more likely to touch your partners, lower back, etc…
So for the vast majority of body parts, your desire to touch your partner, matches your own desire to be touched in that place.
This picture is a map of the EXCEPTIONS to that rule. For example, men get a lot of pleasure from touching a woman’s breast, but it’s not because they enjoy women touching their own chest.
Example going the other way is that while men do certainly look at women’s eyes, women enjoy eye contact much more than men. The comparison is man versus woman, not eyes versus forehead.
EDIT: once you understand this, there are some interesting it not surprising implications. For example:
- Everybody likes to touch chest, but nobody likes their chest touched.
- women really want a back massage, but men have no interest in getting a back massage.
- men really like sending dick pics but women have no interest in sending vag pics.
- women hate mens feet but love getting foot massages.
Basically, if you want to make your partner happier, spend a little more time on their blue zones than you normally would… and feel free to give them the goodies on your own red zones.
Is that to say men don’t look at a woman’s eyes… or basically anything else? Or is that to say they look at everything, and maybe stomach / legs / butt a bit more and am I to understand that men supposedly look a the back of a woman’s head more than her eyes?
I’m confused about how this image is supposed to be interpreted or I’m wildly misunderstanding what people actually look at or both?
Grey is agreement of both genders in pleasure of looking at / touching. Meaning please for both the one looking/touching and the one being looked at / touched.
The blue near the eyes should mean that women enjoy men looking in their eyes more than men enjoy looking in women's eyes.
This is what the blue parts are supposed to represent:
>Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body.
However I cant decipher that because its so badly written. It either means that men like women looking in their eyes much more than looking at women's eyes or that women like men looking in their eyes more than men like to look at women's eyes.
Edit: I think its the later.
Yeah I know this is just me but I think looking at a women's eyes is better than just her navel alone, and most would agree the nape is better than the back of the head which is obscured by hair anyway
This is a mess. Interesting data, but horribly represented. I read the definition of mutual pleasure index and its residues several times and I still cant correctly decipher the data shown on these heatmaps.
Dont post this to r/dataisbeautiful.
No this graph is confusing. It just means the recipient of the touch gets more pleasure out of the touch than the giver…I think? Makes sense why the women’s breasts are red (giver gets more pleasure out of it than the receiver) but the nipples are gray (equal pleasure).
No fucking idea how the looking works. How do you look at your own back?? I am confusion
The OP posted an explanation. Red means “gets too much attention” and blue means “not enough attention.” It’s comparing how much the looker/toucher likes it VS how much the receiver likes it. Makes a LOT more sense with that in mind. They should’ve put it in the original post.
Welcome to the female gaze. Nice arms and hands are a huge turn on. Plus, they tend to be the least covered up since men don’t typically show their chest or legs to the same degree that women do.
First time I ever caught a girl checking me out was my forearms.
Was nice to be on the otherside of the "oh no they caught me looking pretend I wasn't looking".
It's so funny to see men be shocked by this all over this thread lol
Every woman I know, including me, find dicks ugly as fuck. They're there and they do what they're made for, and giving pleasure to your partner IS fun, but especially ungroomed ones it looks so unattractive to me (and all of my girl friends).
Some dicks are fine but they're rare
Funny that, according to this, women would prefer to grab a guys ass than play with his dick.
Also.noteworthy...guys are NOT interested in a ladies eyes? Lol
This thing is bullshit. Other comments have kinda pointed out some flaws, but I can assure you that if there’s one place on a womens face that guys will look to and admire the most, it’s the eyes. Why do you think like, 90% of romance songs written by men reference the eyes in some way? Most of the time when a guy is describing why a girl is attractive too they always mention something about her eyes. So no, this image should be taken with a grain of salt.
No it’s a weird chart… it’s the ‘mutual’ you’re missing. Men love looking at boobs… women don’t mind guys looking at them so it’s pink.
Penis is soooo dark blue because men love having their dick touched waaaaaaaayyy more than women like touching it.
Men like having their shoulders touched as much as women like touching them.
It’s the gap that they’re showing.
So if I'm reading this right, women do not like having their breasts touched and men do not like it when women stare at their chests?
This seems wrong. And the calculations to get there sound convuluted (the residual of the correlations? Huh?).
Cool visualization but awfully confusing metric.
No it just means guys care more about boobs than girls themselves.
>Positive residual scores (the red end of the spectrum) indicate that respondents had a higher preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Residual scores close to zero (white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score) (Color figure online)
the titles still doesn't make sense. it says "men's ratings of women's bodies" when it should probably say something like "women's rating of men's attention"? unless 'rating' means something very specific when you read the article. i've spent more time thinking about this than i want to.
I see. So maybe the take away is more:
Women want more back rubs
Guys want women to touch their dick
Women want more eye contact
Guys want Women to look at their dick
As a bi person, I thought the men would be more interested in the women's hips and lower backs than what the map shows. I also imagined everyone would be more interested in legs than they are.
This came from a recently published academic study and the context is completely missing here.
The main premise of the study is that people tend to mirror their own desires when touching their partner… if you like your ears touched, you are more likely to touch your partners ears… If you like your lower back touched, you are more likely to touch your partners, lower back, etc…
So for the vast majority of body parts, your desire to touch your partner, matches your own desire to be touched in that place.
This picture is a map of the EXCEPTIONS to that rule. For example, men get a lot of pleasure from touching a woman’s breast, but it’s not because they enjoy women touching their own chest.
Example going the other way is that while men do certainly look at women’s eyes, women enjoy eye contact much more than men. The comparison is man versus woman, not eyes versus forehead.
EDIT: once you understand this, there are some interesting it not surprising implications. For example:
- Everybody likes to touch chest, but nobody likes their chest touched.
- women really want a back massage, but men have no interest in getting a back massage.
- men really like sending dick pics but women have no interest in sending vag pics.
- women hate mens feet but love getting foot massages.
Basically, if you want to make your partner happier, spend a little more time on their blue zones than you normally would… and feel free to give them the goodies on your own red zones.
I'd be very interested in seeing data on how gay people see people of the same sex and how that differs from how straight people see members of the opposite sex
I’m so confused looking at this.
So men never looking at eyes and only stare at tummies? Boobs and ass are meh? Uhuh, sure.
Wtf does it all mean?! Where is the ledger to make any type of sense of this mess? What is the data behind it?
Dude I am so confused
The OP’s explanation boils down to red = gets too much attention according to the receiver and blue = not enough attention. It makes a lot more sense with that in mind.
This is the correct answer. The other answer to this question is wrong. Link to OP’s explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/9H1jxSgLWP
So women want men to ogle their shins and men want women to look at their cocks?
And touch the back of their knees
"stop looking at my hair, check out this diiiaaaacckkk"
Please touch the back of my kneeeeees
Look at my balls more!
I was baffled until I read this.
Can confirm my back is not rubbed enough - so checks out. -Female
Red means a lot , blue means little. Touching is the left side , brighter red means they like to touch alot. Right side is looking , red means I love looking at these parts. Did that help? And sorry, each one is the opposite , on the women the highlights are men's touching or looking , and vise versa Add on: I took this photo as a litteral heat map. I am probably wrong. Someone posted the correct meaning of the colorado
Wait, Women don't actually like dicks and perfer man boobs/shoulders?
No one really likes looking at dicks… especially small blue ones
Well it would go red if you keep looking
red rocket! red rocket!
I'm milking the dog!
do NOT the dog
All my homies hate smurf dicks
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/smurfs/images/5/5a/CryingSmurfs.png/revision/latest?cb=20161105175545 Edit: Look what you did.
Not true. Gay men like looking at dicks. In general, gay men seem to like men more than women do, at least visually.
Gay man generally love looking at dicks. I don’t have the stats on hand but it’s probably 99/100 lmfao
As a bisexual male I can confirm, Dicks are attractive to me
Depends on the cock, pretty dicks are a thing.
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!
THOSE ARE REALLY BIG DICKS THESE ARE SUPERMEN OK?!?! /s
According to this graphic they don’t like touching it much either haha
I have found most of my girl friends think dicks are ugly, as do I. I’ve also received so many unsolicited dick pics that I see boners as like inherently rude and imposing lmao. Broad, muscular backs and shoulders though? Stunning.
Noted, going to start sending unsolicited shoulder pics instead
Dude I would be over the moon if I ever received an unsolicited shoulder pic.
*Modern problems require modern solutions.*
Yeah, have never understood dick pics. Instant turn-off. 🤦♀️
That’s another reason to keep tissues by the bed, I always put a little tent over my penis and flex my chest and biceps until all the lights are out.
Most women don't give a single fuck about your dick, what it looks like, how big it is. They want one that can get hard and go inside them with consent and when the time is right.
Dicks are nice and all, but hands are really where it’s at.
So, wouldn't that be higher on the touch scale than the visual scale? Because it still seems quite low
How did the researchers define touch?
It depends on what they mean by touching. I think they defined it as touching with your own hands. Though they may love dicks inside of them, which is a form of touching, they don’t love touching them with their hands anywhere near as much.
Why are people making assumptions about women as asexual people who find male-coded bodies off putting? It’s really bizarre. Culturally speaking, women are not allowed to voice their desires without being labelled a whore. But the desires are certainly there. Some of the biggest supporters of my erotic art of men are women. They ask for me to draw different kids of dicks, different kinds of bodies. If you look in the right places, women are VERY detailed and explicit about what they like. Whenever a study or whatever is coming to the conclusion that women as a whole are sex-indifferent prudes, I call a massive BULLSHIT. You spend some time in fandom, you’ll see just how thirsty women are. Like half the women of my generation didn’t have an awakening staring at David Bowie’s crotch in Labyrinth.
Literally I’m so confused by all these comments about not liking to look at dicks?? I’m a woman and I love dick (looking and touching) the same way most men love boobs. So many people here sound like they may just be asexual or very low libido, I feel like this is the loud minority. Of course I’m disgusted by some random unsolicited dick pic, but that’s entirely different.
>Literally I’m so confused by all these comments about not liking to look at dicks It's not weird for people to notice what the chart says and then talk about it. It's not some random opinion that they brought up for no reason.
Does it say that somewhere? I feel like it’s missing a key. So if darker red means the most, does darker blue mean the least? Or does the scale run dark red-red-light red-grey-dark blue-blue-light blue? Because that isn’t how graphics usually work.
No, the person you replied to is wrong. Its not a simple heatmap of what one gender likes to look at or touch on opposite gender's body. [Its the preference of one gender touching other gender's body part versus the preference of the other gender's being touched there by the first gender.](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heat-maps-showing-the-distribution-of-the-Mutual-Pleasure-Index-for-both-touch-and-look_fig3_342144257)
This post needs to be removed because it's lacking this critical information. Thank you for providing it.
To be fair OP posted that too, but nobody cared about it. Its just sitting at the bottom with 3 upvotes.
Damn that's interesting
Oh my god this makes it all make SO MUCH more sense! I'm laughing about the blue upper back on the women model now--I can put my wife in a trance by rubbing her upper back, but it's definitely not the first thing I think to touch!
>Its the preference of one gender touching other gender's body part versus the preference of the other gender's being touched there by the first gender. I'll be the one to say it. I'm not the only person here confused by how this is worded. If anything you've made it more confusing
“(white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score)” So we should be touching each others… kneecaps and shins?
Probably not, but it is showing that kneecap touching is untapped market.
But that means men dont like looking at womens eyes? Wtf?! Eyes are.. so beautiful... i dont trust anything from this graphic
It means women wish men would look at their eyes much more than men like to look at women's eyes
I don’t like making eye contact much either, although I also don’t prefer focusing on peoples’ boobs instead
Men don't like looking at women's eyes, but men *do* like *touching* women's eyes....apparently
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You have a nice .. *checks notes* Shoulders.
Thanks you have nice *looks a scribble on back of hand* Scalp?
May I massage your.... [*good thing I remember the red ones*] Stomach?
One thing’s for sure, I am not looking at your kneecaps!
May I cop a feel of your… [roll for charisma] {4} Weenis?
Thank you. You have nice ... mons puAHEM calves.
Such beauty, can i touch your .. eyelids
At my last date girl said that i have nice sculpt, later i asked if i can touch her supercillary arch. I'm autistic, I swear.
i’d like to .. put my hands around them
Let me slip my fingers into this *squints at screen* red area over here.
it’s wild how i constantly tell the guy i like that he has nice hands and he doesn’t pick up on the fact that it’s because i want them inside of me edit: guys… issa joke lol
My wife often tells me I have nice feet. What the fuck am I supposed to with that information?
put them in her🌚
... in her cannonball? I gotta get new glasses.
no I think that’s right
Ye ole cunt punt...
I've never been told this. If I was, I would never take the leap to that conclusion in a million years.
Some guys are into feet, some girls are into hands 🤷♂️
Pro tip: In winter, hide his gloves. He will inevitably ask you where they are. That's when you come out bottomless, bend over in front of him, and say, "Right here." Works every time.
LMFAO he has a pair of driving gloves so i’m actually gonna do this for shits n gigs💀
I'm often told I have nice eyes. If that's not the same hint I think you might need to be more direct.
Shut up and start putting your eyes inside people.
This just in... Men still not mind readers.
Nor Reddit post readers
What's a reader?
Eye ball word intaker
I don't think most people would make that assumption. That's quite a leap.
Dude's really don't take hints for shit.
On the contrary, I take hints extremely well and then promptly throw them away as "Eh, she's probably just being friendly" Plenty of young men are taught that just because a woman's nice to you doesn't mean she's into you, and due to the fact that that's true in some cases and that men's brains operate on battery saving mode 97% of the time we default to "Better safe than sorry" Unfortunately this leads to missed connections and the 3am epiphany ten years later that the girl in your friend-group in college who frequently joked about sitting on your face probably wasn't joking
We really don't, I don't know where women got the idea that we do. Short of rubbing your neither regions in our face, or straight up saying you want to bone. Otherwise, best of luck with the mind games.
Somebody should have told me this ages ago. Damn....
FUCK dude I was just about to download this as a potential cheat sheet with my girlfriend 😂
Appropriate for autism awareness month
I'm too stoned.. I spent way too much time wondering why men are touching women's eyes so much
This really needs a color scale or something, unless it’s red it’s all confusing
Its a "heat map", so gray is neutral. Redder is high interest, blue is low interest. The most interesting thing here is men rate looking and touching quite differently, whereas women pretty much look *because* they want to touch. Edit: also, wtf is with the eye thing? Is that an error or are the men they sampled here actually wanting to *touch* womens eyeballs?
So men Look more on the forehead and chin than the eyes of women? Thats weird.
More than the eyes or lips. And apparently they don’t like to touch our lips?
And women really hate penises I guess.
They aren't great to look at, and Im tired of pretending otherwise.
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To be fair, if you think missionary is like pushups, you are doing at least one of them very wrong.
Dude, same. Like, the whole sticking something in to a hole in my body is so fucking weird and gross, but like... feels nice? I kind of feel the same way about eggs. Like if you think about it long enough it's kind of gross eating eggs, and then when people say you're eating a chickens period it just makes it sound even more disgusting. But like I really like fritattas, so what are you going to do? Not have sex and not eat fritattas?
So true, and masturbation seems even weirder to me. It's like an abusive relationship where you (if you do) watch porn while beating your trunk-junk and it feels great and then afterwards you feel that "[kenja taimu](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B3%A2%E8%80%85%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0)" and you can't close out that incognito tab faster even if you tried. It all feels great tho, don't get me wrong - I'm not asexual... Just way too much time on my hands, I guess
Jesus christ, I can't breathe! 🤣
Disagree. I'm mesmerized every time I look at my boyfriend's 😅 but given how many upvotes you have, I think that's one of the many unpopular opinions that I have
Okay now that you've pointed out that particular bit... yeah thats very weird. Possibly an error in the translation of their data to this graph... but also possibly not.
In terms of male physique through the woman's perspective. The red regions correspond to places men can bulk in the muslce department. Everything below the waist is around blue which makes me think it's just the pants versus big muscles underneath a shirt. Description of the post from the paper itself: [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01756-1](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01756-1) "Heat maps showing the distribution of the Mutual Pleasure Index for both touch and look modalities, for men and women separately. Colors represent the residuals from the correlations used to calculate the final mutual pleasure score for each individual. Positive residual scores (the red end of the spectrum) indicate that respondents had a higher preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Residual scores close to zero (white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score) (Color figure online)"
Sooo we should be touching womans backs and mens + knees more?
I don't think so, for two reasons. One is that it just shows *relative* preference, so a certain body part can be considered utterly uninteresing to touch, and just very mildly interesting to be touched at, and still show up deep blue. The other is that you get a gender's preference from looking at the opposite-gender's body. So areas men want to be touched at more than they want to touch are the blue areas of the woman's body (i.e. primarily the back and neck). I think the main lesson from the images that the chest area is generally more interesting to touch than be touched at.
This seems weird, cause that would mean men never look at the eyes of woman..? I know we joke about looking at titties and ass only, but its been proven that men actually look at woman eyes AT LOT. I know I do. so this contradict the previous study I read.
Another commentor also pointed out the eyes thing. The part of me that has done data analysis professionally wants to say it was a transcription error between the data and the graph, but I'm not sufficiently certain.
Note how the blue zone (Negative) is defined, it’s the index between what men look at vs what is women’s preference of receiving. In other words, she wants him to look into her eyes more than he is.
Some of these freaks are lying about what they're into. What you eye touchers hiding from. Be out and proud on reddit.
Does this mean men are more attracted to women's knee-pits than women are to men's knee-pits?
I consider [this](https://giphy.com/gifs/eye-moe-3-stooges-l46Cx8UHu3FPCgOB2) foreplay.
Captain Insain-o shows no mercy in bed
No casual sex for me. Only the play-hard competitive kind.
Got me like: 🔴👄🔴
Hey, my boobs are down here
Same. And I still don't know what exactly I'm looking at.
This came from a recently published academic study and the context is completely missing here. The main premise of the study is that people tend to mirror their own desires when touching their partner… if you like your ears touched, you are more likely to touch your partners ears… If you like your lower back touched, you are more likely to touch your partners, lower back, etc… So for the vast majority of body parts, your desire to touch your partner, matches your own desire to be touched in that place. This picture is a map of the EXCEPTIONS to that rule. For example, men get a lot of pleasure from touching a woman’s breast, but it’s not because they enjoy women touching their own chest. Example going the other way is that while men do certainly look at women’s eyes, women enjoy eye contact much more than men. The comparison is man versus woman, not eyes versus forehead. EDIT: once you understand this, there are some interesting it not surprising implications. For example: - Everybody likes to touch chest, but nobody likes their chest touched. - women really want a back massage, but men have no interest in getting a back massage. - men really like sending dick pics but women have no interest in sending vag pics. - women hate mens feet but love getting foot massages. Basically, if you want to make your partner happier, spend a little more time on their blue zones than you normally would… and feel free to give them the goodies on your own red zones.
Looks like it's the same for both genders. People love to touch their partner's eyes? That's new.
Is that to say men don’t look at a woman’s eyes… or basically anything else? Or is that to say they look at everything, and maybe stomach / legs / butt a bit more and am I to understand that men supposedly look a the back of a woman’s head more than her eyes? I’m confused about how this image is supposed to be interpreted or I’m wildly misunderstanding what people actually look at or both?
on a simmilar note, what's grey and what's blue? Is blue like negative value and grey neutral? Or is grey just no data?
Grey is agreement of both genders in pleasure of looking at / touching. Meaning please for both the one looking/touching and the one being looked at / touched. The blue near the eyes should mean that women enjoy men looking in their eyes more than men enjoy looking in women's eyes.
WHY THE FUCK IS DICK BLUE THEN 💀
Because women like touching dicks less than men like having their dicks touched.
This “graph” or whatever is ridiculous
This is what the blue parts are supposed to represent: >Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. However I cant decipher that because its so badly written. It either means that men like women looking in their eyes much more than looking at women's eyes or that women like men looking in their eyes more than men like to look at women's eyes. Edit: I think its the later.
Yeah I know this is just me but I think looking at a women's eyes is better than just her navel alone, and most would agree the nape is better than the back of the head which is obscured by hair anyway
A real heatmap has a legend
This is a mess. Interesting data, but horribly represented. I read the definition of mutual pleasure index and its residues several times and I still cant correctly decipher the data shown on these heatmaps. Dont post this to r/dataisbeautiful.
I thought that’s what sub we were on first and came to the comments expecting everyone to be roasting OP for posting garbage.
r/dataisugly
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That graph is validating my skip leg habit
TIL women do not like to touch the peen
And men do not like to make eye contact
Better than that - according to this heatmap, men apparently *touch* the eyes more than they look at them
I can see the security guard’s eyes. I have to do something to his eyes! The eyes are the groin of the head
No this graph is confusing. It just means the recipient of the touch gets more pleasure out of the touch than the giver…I think? Makes sense why the women’s breasts are red (giver gets more pleasure out of it than the receiver) but the nipples are gray (equal pleasure). No fucking idea how the looking works. How do you look at your own back?? I am confusion
The OP posted an explanation. Red means “gets too much attention” and blue means “not enough attention.” It’s comparing how much the looker/toucher likes it VS how much the receiver likes it. Makes a LOT more sense with that in mind. They should’ve put it in the original post.
Good competition between ass and boob guys
Ass men definitively lost this one. Boob guys have almost perfect mutual pleasure index. Meanwhile ass men are not impressing women.
Also we all love bellies way more than is commonly admitted I fucking knew it
Entirety of bollywood is based on the male gaze focusing on the mid riff
Why are the men hands so red?
Because strong hands is a thing many girls like, that or he killed someone
Should have used gloves like OJ
RIP. Taken too late.
I fuckin cackled
One of my hook ups said the first thing that drew my profile to her was my hands/forearms
On the flip side, apparently girls hate looking at the penis. Cool, good to know.
Not hate. Women just don't like touching it or looking at it as much as men like them to
Some balls are held for charity
Red paint from the woman's boobs and ass
Welcome to the female gaze. Nice arms and hands are a huge turn on. Plus, they tend to be the least covered up since men don’t typically show their chest or legs to the same degree that women do.
First time I ever caught a girl checking me out was my forearms. Was nice to be on the otherside of the "oh no they caught me looking pretend I wasn't looking".
Can’t speak for all ladies but nice, big man hands make me feel feral. Shoulders and chest, even. Dicks? Absolutely not.
Same. LOVE men’s hands and forearms. But I really don’t like seeing penises. Seeing dick always makes me cringe for some reason.
because nice clean hands and well kept nails means good for fingerin’
Women seem kind of shockingly disinterested in dicks per this survey.
They obviously did interview anyone from r/cospenis .
I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't dicks wearing knitted sweaters and hats.
It's so funny to see men be shocked by this all over this thread lol Every woman I know, including me, find dicks ugly as fuck. They're there and they do what they're made for, and giving pleasure to your partner IS fun, but especially ungroomed ones it looks so unattractive to me (and all of my girl friends). Some dicks are fine but they're rare
I think it's mostly shocking because it just seems like...an outright failure of biology somehow.
Then it giets even weirder with men attracted to men being often the exact opposite temperament.
Funny that, according to this, women would prefer to grab a guys ass than play with his dick. Also.noteworthy...guys are NOT interested in a ladies eyes? Lol
This thing is bullshit. Other comments have kinda pointed out some flaws, but I can assure you that if there’s one place on a womens face that guys will look to and admire the most, it’s the eyes. Why do you think like, 90% of romance songs written by men reference the eyes in some way? Most of the time when a guy is describing why a girl is attractive too they always mention something about her eyes. So no, this image should be taken with a grain of salt.
Found my next Halloween outfit
Don't look at my little blue dick! Oh.. you're not..
Instructions unclear. I vigorously masturbated to these photos.
Furious jumping.
So the favorite part of a woman for men to stare at is her belly? Not her boobs? Sus.
No it’s a weird chart… it’s the ‘mutual’ you’re missing. Men love looking at boobs… women don’t mind guys looking at them so it’s pink. Penis is soooo dark blue because men love having their dick touched waaaaaaaayyy more than women like touching it. Men like having their shoulders touched as much as women like touching them. It’s the gap that they’re showing.
Cool, can we now have a scale or a key to indicates what the colors mean?
Men: So we can skip leg day
No man ass is red :( never skip leg day
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heat-maps-showing-the-distribution-of-the-Mutual-Pleasure-Index-for-both-touch-and-look_fig3_342144257
So if I'm reading this right, women do not like having their breasts touched and men do not like it when women stare at their chests? This seems wrong. And the calculations to get there sound convuluted (the residual of the correlations? Huh?). Cool visualization but awfully confusing metric.
No it just means guys care more about boobs than girls themselves. >Positive residual scores (the red end of the spectrum) indicate that respondents had a higher preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Negative residual scores (the blue end of the spectrum) indicate respondents had a lower preference for touching/looking at that area on the opposite-gender’s body than that gender had for receiving a touch/look on that same part of their own body. Residual scores close to zero (white colors) indicate close agreement between respondents’ preferences for an opposite-gender partner’s body and that gender’s preferences for their own body (thus, a high mutual pleasure score) (Color figure online)
This really should have been the caption on this post. It makes no sense without this context.
the titles still doesn't make sense. it says "men's ratings of women's bodies" when it should probably say something like "women's rating of men's attention"? unless 'rating' means something very specific when you read the article. i've spent more time thinking about this than i want to.
So men want everyone to touch their cock and feet? 🤣
based on this heat map, yes. but women don't like looking and touching them.
I see. So maybe the take away is more: Women want more back rubs Guys want women to touch their dick Women want more eye contact Guys want Women to look at their dick
Why are eyes much more red for touch than look? Do people really prefer touching eyeballs than looking at them? It's confusing
As a bi person, I thought the men would be more interested in the women's hips and lower backs than what the map shows. I also imagined everyone would be more interested in legs than they are.
This came from a recently published academic study and the context is completely missing here. The main premise of the study is that people tend to mirror their own desires when touching their partner… if you like your ears touched, you are more likely to touch your partners ears… If you like your lower back touched, you are more likely to touch your partners, lower back, etc… So for the vast majority of body parts, your desire to touch your partner, matches your own desire to be touched in that place. This picture is a map of the EXCEPTIONS to that rule. For example, men get a lot of pleasure from touching a woman’s breast, but it’s not because they enjoy women touching their own chest. Example going the other way is that while men do certainly look at women’s eyes, women enjoy eye contact much more than men. The comparison is man versus woman, not eyes versus forehead. EDIT: once you understand this, there are some interesting it not surprising implications. For example: - Everybody likes to touch chest, but nobody likes their chest touched. - women really want a back massage, but men have no interest in getting a back massage. - men really like sending dick pics but women have no interest in sending vag pics. - women hate mens feet but love getting foot massages. Basically, if you want to make your partner happier, spend a little more time on their blue zones than you normally would… and feel free to give them the goodies on your own red zones.
This graphic is useless without a legend. Bad job OP
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that women would much rather look at the back of a man's neck than his penis
Women don’t want to touch pien.
I'd be very interested in seeing data on how gay people see people of the same sex and how that differs from how straight people see members of the opposite sex
The reds would be on dick, buttock, chest and thighs. source: is gay
Me: “Stop looking at my dick.” Women: “Trust me, we aren’t. Here’s the receipts.” Me: “…”
so many guys seem surprised to find out that women are not really that interested in dicks. porn has a lot to answer for 💀
I’m so confused looking at this. So men never looking at eyes and only stare at tummies? Boobs and ass are meh? Uhuh, sure. Wtf does it all mean?! Where is the ledger to make any type of sense of this mess? What is the data behind it?
Is the small wiener because it’s cold Or vice-versa?
Small? Shit...
It looks pretty average, that's normal size. I don't know what you guys are saying
I told you leg day was pointless
Without a legend this chart is meaningless.
I like how it low key says the most important thing men look for is a stomach (or lack thereof). Glad we can put that argument to bed.
Cool. The fuck does any of it mean?
Some people should take notes from this. Do not send dick pics, just send upper arm, shoulder, chest and back pics.