How Often Do Men Stare at Women?

You’ve always heard the glib remarks about how often men think of sex in a day, and it’s often some astronomical number that seems like all we men do is sit around and drool on ourselves thinking about our next sexual encounter, or women we’d like to bed, or just dreaming up sequences about Jane Doe at the office that we’ve always had a crush on.  And while partly this is true as most men do spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the deed rather than actually doing it, there is another fact that has to do with sex that we don’t think about as often.  One of those facts is, how often do men typically stare at attractive women in a given day?

The study was carried out in Britain, but it probably is somewhat indicative to what their overseas counterparts would do, so it’s good enough.  There may be some slight cultural differences that would skew the results, but you catch the drift.  When surveyed, British men indicated that they usually stare at about ten women in a given day, spending roughly 43 minutes of their day enjoying the looks of a female. Wow!  What if you don’t even leave your house in a day? Does online oggling count or not?  If it does, then I guess that would make sense, sometimes you don’t even see ten women that you deem stare-worthy in a day!

When this all adds up at the end of a typical male life span, men spend nearly one whole year of their life looking at the opposite sex.  Hmm, that’s actually about right. After all, we are hard wired to constantly seek out mates, so it does make sense that we would spend about a year of our life at least scoping out the goods.  Even married men do it (and so do you women, don’t deny it!).  There’s no harm in it as long as it’s not “creepy” and obvious, and as long as you don’t take it too far and embarrass your significant other if you ask me.  We can all look a little and enjoy the scenery even if we’re attached, it’s only human.

Men surveyed indicated that their favorite places to give women the once (and twice) over was at bars and grocery stores.  So ladies, you’re not even safe when shopping I guess!  I’d never thought of the grocery store to be honest.  She’d have to be pretty gorgeous to get my attention there when I’m focused on getting grub for the week.