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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Guys With Guitars Are Sexier, But Why?
BY MAUREEN O'CONNOR
When a man picks up a guitar, his sexiness increases, two studies on "the mating advantage of male musicians" have concluded. (http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-mating-advantage-of-male-musicians-57090/) Pacific Standard reports that a study at France's Universate de Bretagne-Sud sent a 20-year-old man with "a high level of physical attractiveness" to hit on 300 women using the same script every time. When he was holding a guitar case, 31 percent of the women gave him their phone numbers. Carrying nothing, 14 percent. Carrying a gym bag, 9 percent.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/05/guys-with-guitars-are-sexier-but-wh...
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-mating-advantage-of-male-m...
No mention of Ovations though. :-(
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Location: Flahdaw | BanjoJ - 2013-09-25 6:38 AM
When he was holding a guitar case, 31 percent of the women gave him their phone numbers. Carrying nothing, 14 percent. Carrying a gym bag, 9 percent.
When carrying duct tape and a box cutter it goes all the way down to 4%. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | If it was ME, it would be down to 0.1% and I'd probably be trying to post bail... |
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Location: Denver, CO | It did say "high level of physical attractiveness." And kangaroos don't count.
They tried that same study in Colorado, and the results were, 37% of the females responded by asking if he had a joint. ;-) |
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Location: Jet City | Are you only attractive to siblings and kin if you carry a banjo? |
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Location: Orlando, FL | damon67 - 2013-09-25 11:20 AM
Are you only attractive to siblings and kin if you carry a banjo?
...and other banjo players... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | They need to redo the study with a "normal" guy--balding and pudgy--and see if the guitar case makes any difference. Then I could compare their results with mine. Zero phone numbers with or without the guitar case. The Porsche didn't help either. |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Designzilla - 2013-09-26 2:53 AM
damon67 - 2013-09-25 11:20 AM
Are you only attractive to siblings and kin if you carry a banjo?
...and other banjo players...
Ouch! Double ouch!
And I'm not that stupid. I wouldn't try it with my banjo case. Only with an Ovation case.
Chicks from Canberra are pretty sophisticated, unlike Queensland.
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Triple ouch! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | But... sadly true. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Yeah, a banjo case is one of the few things worse than carrying duct tape and a box cutter. Worse case scenario...an aging pudgy lawyer carrying duct tape and box cutter in one hand, and a banjo case in the other. Might as well become a monk.... |
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Location: sitting at my computer | darkbarguitar - Might as well become a monk.... a banjo playin' monk... outta the pan into the friar!  
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Location: Parrish, FL | You guys are channeling Cliff and Schroeder from the old days. I miss this type of banner.
Good stuff, keep it up.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I carry a guitar in a soft case a couple of blocks every Tuesday to my guitar lesson. I get plenty of looks, I can't count the number of guys who have asked whether I have a gun in there, and I've had a few guys ask about the guitar, but I've never had a female say or ask anything. Maybe they are afraid I'll shoot them.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Where does one find these "Queensland" girls of which you speak?
.....and by 'unsophisticated' do you mean one beer or six? |
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Location: Denver, CO | The Porsche didn't help either. But you were supposed to leave the wife home. |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | fillhixx - 2013-09-27 10:05 AM
Where does one find these "Queensland" girls of which you speak?
.....and by 'unsophisticated' do you mean one beer or six?
You'll find them on the beach in Queensland, Australia drinking XXXX beer and playing cricket.
After six beers they're only warming up!
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