Why do guys find long hair attractive?

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Can somebody please explain to me the reasons or science behind why guys are more physically attracted to girls with long hair more than girls with short hair?

SilentG · Accepted Answer

Not all guys do. I can't help but imagine those who take women's hair length seriously as young boys who are still unconsciously hung up on tales of ancient princesses or old, traditional men with a concrete, pre-formed but outdated perception of how a woman should look, i. e. long nails, painted face, styled long hair, red lipstick... etc and all the unnecessary fuss which is incompatible with the 21th to point to the least.
That said, wear your hair as short as you may fancy, go out and I bet you would get hit on even more ;) Know why? Short hair, while not being the mainstream (yet), can make loads of those prejudging males more curious than anything!

Kinstrome · Accepted Answer

It obscures parts of the neck and face, and is thus used by women to flirt. Several preening gestures involves drawing back the hair to reveal more of the face. Also, it suggests youth, and its length serves as a counterpart to long legs/torso.

In modern culture it seems to represent the idea of secrecy. It's similar to the reason that men like women who give a secretive look like this:

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been_waiting · Accepted Answer

I read that long hair signifies youth; the older you get the harder it is to grow your hair out.
Youth is more important to female reproduction than men. Also when diseased hair won't grow as long so it is an indicator of health.
Obviously in these days we style our hair and cut it so its different now but attraction has not changed much.

Mustachekitteh · Accepted Answer

They like to play with it plus it looks very beautiful ^^

dazedandconfused22 · Accepted Answer

Straight guys are biologically attracted to things that are mysterious and different from them... breasts, vaginas, long eyelashes etc. Since most guys have shorter hair, and because shorter hair makes women look more masculine they are attracted to long flowing hair :)

Dandeus · Answer

It's just cultural norms. In ancient cultures both sexes wore long hair. It was the rise of disciplined and organized military that started the change, when Alexander the Great started requiring his troops to shave beard and head.

The clean cut look became associated with soldiers, and by extension men. That's still the case today. So long hair became feminine as a matter of contrast to what became masculine.

Incidentally, military uniforms and male laborer's clothing is what eventually led to the divergence of the unisex tunic into the idea of dresses being for women and trousers for men.

steveguitar · Answer

I don't know lol. I just is that way. if there is science behind it I don't know how they could have found proof that guys find that more attractive. maybe it's just the way that we grow up. usually guys are told to cut their hair, girls are told to grow it past their ears. we identify girls with long hair and guys with short hair. plus long hair just gives girls a more flowing relaxed look. I don't know lol

ritxi · Answer

There two main reasons of prefering long hair on girls:
- The hair is a part of the body. If a girl has it nice, she'd have more beutiful inches of her part of the body if she had it longer.
- I love features in girls that make her more different than me (and most guys). I love big bobs on girls and long haired girls who don't like long hair on guys.

anastasis · Answer

Yes, Saint Paul explains in 1Corinthians 11:15 15But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

TadCurious · Answer

I don't know either, because I think some girls look really great with short hair, and personally I don't care for a girl's hair to be TOO long. Like down by their butts or something like that.

JohnScofield787 · Answer

If i want to touch short hair, i can rub my fingers through my own hair. There are few things more sensual than a woman with lovely long hair.

AnnaTheAnnaa · Answer

Because they don't usually have it, because it's feminine, because it represents the opposite, and the opposite is what? Attractive :)

latina28 · Answer

Maybe they think it's more feminine, they can play with it, and it's something different that most men do not have.

existing_not_living · Answer

Long hair is feminine while short hair is seen as masculine. A guy who is straight wants a girl, not a guy so they'd rather long hair, not short.

jamaicant-argue · Answer

Long hair is a natural because its only in the last hundred years that short hair has been favored at all, that's a pretty simple reason right.

albundyfan · Answer

because guys mostly have fairly short hair. Maybe a lot of us associate long hair with femininity on a subconscious level. of course I like both, but more women can pull off long hair than they can short hair.

HoodedCrow · Answer

I don't get it either. I have short hair and most guys like it so...

Shan15 · Answer

I appreciate all but what I really really like if i were to narrow it down is curly hair <3

Anonymous · Answer

My ex said because he thought it was pretty when girl have long hair

OrangeBoy · Answer

Not for me @XEmmaSigsX, i prefer medium short. I would say that 1 in 5 men agrees with me.

Anonymous · Answer

Not sure there is a science before it but I have never met a girl who looked better with short hair than she does with long hair. If she is a 10 with short hair than she is an 11 with long hair

JackKerouac77 · Answer

I find both attractive.

Klaatu51 · Answer

because i like to pull them LOL XD

atomique · Answer

I prefer short or mid length

KleinTeef · Answer

Long hair is feminine.

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