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It's true: all the best men are taken

19 August 2009

ATTACHED women beware – single women really have got their eye on your man.

Melissa Burkley and Jessica Parker of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater asked 184 students to participate in a study on sexual attraction in which they were told they would be matched with an ideal partner. Unknown to them there was just one “ideal man” and one “ideal woman” pictured – the only difference was that half the participants were told their ideal mate was single, and the other half that he or she was in a relationship.

Fifty-nine per cent of women offered a single man were interested…

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