Who Would Have Thunk It – A New Study Says Women Are Attracted To Rich Men

Proof • January 18, 2009

Well, I’m certainly flabbergasted.
There is yet another study out there (one of these days I’m gonna have to figure out just how and where to get my hands on the cash to do one of these studies – the list of possiblities of the things you could get into in the name of science is endless) that is telling us that women are more sexually attracted to men with money. I hate to burst their bubble but, uh, we already knew that.
The first clue most of us have is seeing some wrinkled curmudgeon with a twenty-something babe on his arm and thinking, hmmmm:

Examples abound. Even in his eighties, Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, has a succession of young girlfriends. Ronnie Wood has recently shown that it’s not only Mick Jagger among the sixtysome-thing Rolling Stones who can attract much younger women, and Donald Trump, the portly American businessman, has a wife 24 years his junior.
Until now some of us may have taken consolation in the idea that the beautiful women involved in such relationships were just doing it for the lifestyle – and enduring the sex.
Now, however, science is showing that a rich man’s money has aphrodisiac qualities as well as purchasing power. Their partners really can have it all.
Many will object to the idea that women are hardwired to be gold-diggers. Perhaps, however, they will be appeased by the revelation that the same kinds of primitive forces are at work in men too. They may operate in different ways and produce different behaviour – but they come from exactly the same source: a genetic code fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution to make us seek out whoever offers us the best deal in life.

I don’t exactly see it as women being hardwired as gold-diggers. I see it more as an issue of using the assets you’re given. Men have muscle. Always have, and haven’t hesitated to use it to get what they want. See it. Club it. Kill it. Take it home. Grunt.
Women get what they want another way. See it. Tell tall dark and gruesome to club it. And bring it home to you. Or tell short, wrinkled and rich to buy it for you. Same thing.
I know, I know….the subject will make some women mad but the fact is this – if ancient, viagra gulping Hugh Hefner or the Rolling Stone’s ancient and drug addled Ron Wood worked at a Wal-Mart and, with lascivious intent, approached a babe like they have hanging around them now, the girl would run screaming for the cops, and rightfully so. Money does, in fact, talk, and apparently it talks dirty at times.
I’m just not sure why it takes scientific study after study to keep telling us that.
Thanks to Hot Air for this one.

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http://Array Hannitized

Most women would like to marry a rich man, but a surprising number are willing to hook up with a loser who has to see a probation officer every week.

The article doesn’t say all women will hook up with old, rich men. Only that if they do it, a lot of them do it because they are sexually aroused as well.

You are missing the point.

A buddy of mine is a very sucessful lawyer, who has no success with the ladies. He happens to be short. He’s often remarked that chicks seem to prefer dirtbags who go to a club in tank tops and backwards hats than a short nebish lawyer in an Armani suit who drives a convertable sports car.

That is not Hue Heffner wealth your buddy is displaying, nor is he the kind of person the article is discussing….extremely rich, powerful old men who are leaders and powerful men.

You described your buddy as a semi-wealthy dweeb.
Hannitized

So all of you geniuses, who can’t see past the nose on your face are all going to sit here and claim you “knew” women were actually turned on to wrinkly old men in a sexual manner because of their wealth?

Bullshit. i think half of you, if not more, are incapable of reading;

Until now some of us may have taken consolation in the idea that the beautiful women involved in such relationships were just doing it for the lifestyle – and enduring the sex.

There are a lot of people who believed the above and this information is a change in the line of thinking.

But by all means, go on pretending that everyone thought this way if it makes you feel better about yourselves.
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As an old boss of mine used to say,

If only I’d been born rich instead of so darned good looking!

Heh.
http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

Ha ha – hardwired indeed … 20 year old babes having “really good” rigorous, adventurous, tremulous sex with the old coots in order to wear them out quickly while the old coots are still, ’til their last dying breath, tryng to pass on that DNA to the fittest of the species.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Mickey,

It seems that way to you too, does it?
http://www.myspace.com/lorindalea Pilgrim’s Lady

QueenZel, I meant to include you in the last post.
http://www.pal2pal.com/BLOGEE Pal2Pal

pack not pact. Ugh!

jimmypop: money is not power. Money is money, it is a tool, not a character trait, and can never replace what I’m talking about, power can also mean money, however. Stop making excuses for yourself and figure it out. With money, you might be able to buy yourself lots of women as long as your money holds out, but money will never buy you a woman’s respect. If she respects you, she’ll be there for you whether you’re rich or poor, whether you buy her diamonds, furs and fancy cars, or she has to live in a shack and wear clothes from the Goodwill. And I’ll note that most powerful men who also have money didn’t start out rich. They are usually self-made men, yet I’ll bet women recognized and were attracted to their power (and potential) long before they had an extra dime.

QueenZel: I would have called it a “man’s man” but a manly man works too. A perfect example is the Chuck Yeager character in the movie “The Right Stuff.”
sayanything-2407

Wasted money on a rediculous report that is so obvious.
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Women are attracted to self-assured powerful men. That can be a man powerful in industry and therefore probably rich as well as powerful. But, a powerful leader of men is equally attractive and he may not necessarily be rich. Men tend to think of power in the terms of physical power, but women know that is the least of the attractiveness of power.

Women instinctively look for the leader of the pact, the alpha male because he is the most likely to protect her and her children as well as be the best provider and give her social status as the alpha female. Young girls begin to distinguish the power/leadership traits quite young and hone their skill as they age into their childbearing years.

It’s in the eyes guys, not in the size of your bank account or your muscles or appendage. The intelligence, the spark that indicates you know you are a winner, that’s what women pick up on and are attracted to. If you feel used, then it is probably because you thought you could use money as a replacement for real power/leadership. Money might get you in the door, but if you don’t have the stones, she’ll tire of you quickly, get what she can and move on. No one wants to be saddled for long with a loser, even if he is rich.

I once walked into a room of about 250 people, mostly high dollar political donors and high-ranking politicians. The majority of the men held powerful positions or were very rich and yet, almost instantly my eye was drawn to an average looking guy standing a bit apart from the group. As I watched, I noticed lots of female eyes glancing at the same guy over and over. He wasn’t particularly good looking, not even dressed very well, yet there was no denying he was magnetic. After making a few inquiries, I found out that he was a Navy Seal and much to my own delight, he was there in the role of bodyguard for my boss, so I got to meet him. He had an aura of fearlessness about him, well educated, impeccable manners, and a sense of fun, a take charge guy with a level of concentration so intense that when he was talking to you, you felt like you and he were the only ones in the room. I doubt there was a woman in the room who didn’t feel it and most probably would have liked to go home with him, even the married ones.
http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

Women are attracted to self-assured powerful men.

I’ll back you up too. Self confidence, NOT cockiness or arrogance, is EXTREMELY appealing – regardless of money! I was attracted to my husband 27 years ago because he was self-assured, rogue & AirForce. I, and most of the women I know, want a manly man. Forget the metrosexual, cry-baby girly men … we want Clint Eastwood! NOT Robert Redford – unless he’s in character as Jeremiah Johnson. Clint Eastwood as a Navy Seal … ! I would say the new James Bond, Daniel Craig but I know you guys probably don’t like him (as 007), but, I think most women do – he seems pretty much perfect.
jimmypop

Women instinctively look for the leader of the pact, the alpha male because he is the most likely to protect her and her children as well as be the best provider and give her social status as the alpha female.

sorry, leaders are rarely the janitor…. money means power and girls know it.
http://www.myspace.com/lorindalea Pilgrim’s Lady

Hey Pilgrim,
Do you have some hidden assets that I only subconsciously know about? HMMMM….
or could it be more like the instinctive nature of woman, rather than the self created she-cat of this world? Kinda like what Pal2pal stated so wonderfully (loosely phrased).
Ummmm, LOL, is there something I need to be concerned about? =-)

You can answer the questions when you return to our den, or you answer here if you choose,
MY MANLY man. Tis up to you.

Much love,
Your Lady
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Pal2pal: My wife will back up what you stated. Ooh-rah!
jimmypop

Stop making excuses for yourself and figure it out.

huh?
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I read that where men are shallow as far as looks women are shallow as far as status.
Mickey

As many a man has discovered, some women put a high price on a small patch of fur.
Hannitized

Wing Chun,

The article was about women…..not girls.
docdave

As the lyrics of a song said ‘Diamonds are a girls best friend’.
Mickey

Isn’t Hannitized gay?
http://www.pal2pal.com/BLOGEE Pal2Pal

A buddy of mine is a very sucessful lawyer, who has no success with the
ladies. He happens to be short. He’s often remarked that chicks seem to
prefer dirtbags who go to a club in tank tops and backwards hats than a
short nebish lawyer in an Armani suit who drives a convertable sports car.

A jerk is a jerk whether clad in rags or an Armani suit. Your friend sounds like a jerk just from your description. Dirtbags? Rather judgmental, yes? Guys who think that driving a convertible and wearing designer suits will make them a manly man might as well wear a sign around their neck saying “loser.” If your friend thought he was a winner, inside, he wouldn’t need all the accouterments nor would he think that women are just one more accoutrement he should be able to buy. And short to boot.

I love the way men make all kinds of excuses for themselves as to why they can’t get or keep a woman. It is so easy to whine and blame the women and think your inadequacy is because you don’t have enough money. Rich losers are still losers and jerks. I’ll bet your friend doesn’t even enjoy the company of women all that much other than to satisfy his own selfish needs. Men who attract women, even men in tank tops, don’t see women as possessions and women sense that immediately and gravitate to it. These men are not arrogant or boastful, they don’t have to be. They know, inside, that they are winners. They don’t need to prove it unnecessarily. They don’t need accouterments to say to others, “see I’m better than you.” Women will chose to be with the winner, they will settle for a loser if he has money. But in settling, she’ll feel resentful that she is stuck with a loser and expect to get something for her sacrifice. So if you’re experience is only women who expect to get something tangible out of you to stay in the relationship, you should look to yourself and what you are projecting and quit whining about money-grubbing gold digger women.

Not to even mention that an attitude that it takes money to get the girl says to the girl you are with when you are broke that she is only temporary and that if you only had money, you’d be with someone else.
http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

not in the size of your bank account or your muscles or appendage. The intelligence, the spark that indicates you know you are a winner

That’s it. PRECISELY!

QueenZel: I would have called it a “man’s man” but a manly man works too. A perfect example is the Chuck Yeager character in the movie “The Right Stuff.”

You made me laugh … “man’s man,” of course – you sound like what we are talking about. See! I can sense it through a blog.
THE RIGHT STUFF – one of the greatest movies ever. You are so right.

I’d also venture to say that men who exude this, hmmm … pheromone of masculine confidence, are more prone to become “successful” in all other areas of their lives simply because of it. It’s similar to charisma but not quite as fluffy. Maybe it’s just the right amount of testosterone – which can be toxic in too great amounts.
Wing Chun Geologist

The article was about women…..not girls.

I’m sure most high school girls would say they want a rich boyfriend, but are prefectly happy to hook up with a broke loser failing multiple classes.

Most women would like to marry a rich man, but a surprising number are willing to hook up with a loser who has to see a probation officer every week.

A buddy of mine is a very sucessful lawyer, who has no success with the ladies. He happens to be short. He’s often remarked that chicks seem to prefer dirtbags who go to a club in tank tops and backwards hats than a short nebish lawyer in an Armani suit who drives a convertable sports car.
Wing Chun Geologist

On the other hand…

Hang around any high school and you’ll see that girls crawling all over the loser guys who can barely read, don’t know their times tables, and walk around with their pants below their butts.

These guys are about the least likely to end up gainfully employed, much less rich. They also end up fathering the most children.
jimmypop

next thing they will tell us is that the sky is blue.

anyway, as ive said here and other places, money DOES buy happiness. to think ohter wise means your perpetually poor.
Hannitized

Wishful thinking on Mickey’s part. You know how you know he’s gay?? He wishes others were to make his fantasies complete.
http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

Ya think?
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Absolutism should not be engaged in mind you. While women as with men are creatures of instinct whether or not they consciously realize it, once the moment has passed, there must be something more to maintain the relationship or the old saws come into play most notable “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and “familiarity breeds contempt”.

If the relationship fails to be maintained through hard work and single minded determination to see it through based on a full knowing acceptance of what you’re about, she will not care so much about what initially drew her in and be inclined to walk away from it.

Today’s divorce at will society descends from a rabid insistence on a simplistic unthinking obsession with self-centeredness. Even liberal causes and “cause-heads” as they were called in PCU are selfish endeavors because it is all about those who take part in them feeling good about themselves, not doing that which they consciously and intellectually realize is good for the world and thus themselves, and hence sabotaged from the start to pervert to empty jingoistic rhetoric and superficial shallow irrelevant actions.

Making a marriage work requires not hot sex, passionate love, or lots of money. Those are great for attracting mates and getting them to mouth the words of the commitment. What makes it work and sustain is dogged refusal to let any other imperatives get in the way. That means, making choices between your desire to be married and other things you desire, honestly realizing which are more important to you, and choosing the marriage over the others.

All things incompatible with the marriage must be rejected and you must cease your desire for them, or control it by willful choice not to pursue them. Modern liberalism is big on pop-psych nonsense that denial of any impulse is dangerous and unhealthy even if selectively so. Their message has led to a society that says “me first” even when it leaves them alone and not so happy as they wanted to be.

Guess you didn’t actually truly put yourself first, did you? Self-denial is actually a form of enlightened self-interest and selfishness which can make people much happier if it is done in the conscious pursuit of a chosen goal that truly does make them happy… to not be alone.

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