Forum - Guys Clueless At Glomming Sexual Interest

Researchers from Indiana University (IU) and Yale say that young men routinely confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest. In the study, appearing in Psychological Science, men who viewed images of friendly women misidentified 12 percent of the images as sexually interested. The fairer sex weren't that far behind, with women mistaking 9 percent of friendly images for sexual interest.

Incredibly, both men and women were even more likely to do the opposite - when viewing images of sexually interested women, men mistakenly called 38 percent of the images "friendly." Once again, women weren't that far behind, mistaking 32 percent of the sexual interest cues for friendliness.

Full story here:

http://altpenis.com/penis_news/20080303020842sys.shtml

Yes, the youngsters usually tend to oversexualize the environs, and feel stupid sometimes. This is normal.

This is not surprising for me. But we should take account of this mighty factor to make the business more effective!

men assume that saying hello is being sexually interested.

It depends on HOW it is said.
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So far, comments have concentrated on people mistaking "friendly" cues for sexual cues. And that error only involved about 10% of the cues presented in the study.

But, the people in the study (both men and women) also made the opposite error -- that of not recognizing sexual cues, deeming them only "friendly," over one third of the time.

So, it seems that people lose out on a lot of possible sex by misreading many favorable cues.

Or, were the researchers themselves possibly unclear on what constitute "friendly" cues as opposed to sexual ones?