According to this press release from Active Mate, climbing and extreme sports can make a man more attractive to a woman – doesn’t seem to appear the opposite way round – wonder if we can see the original survey!

“A survey by psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman ranked 15 common sports into a “sexiness scale”, with 57% of women finding climbing the most attractive sport, closely followed by extreme sports (56%), football (52%), and hiking (51%). Bottom of female respondents’ list came golf, with just 9% of their vote.

Men, Wiseman discovered, said they’d be most attracted to women into aerobics (70%), yoga (65%), and the gym (64%). Bottom of their list came bodybuilding (5%), rugby (6%), and – again – golf (18%). The online survey polled 6,142 people.”

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