Seeing Red

This morning I read where Zachary Goelman wrote an article that was published in New York (Reuters) this week.  It seems that "Women in the United States, England, Germany and China said they found men pictured wearing red, or framed in red, more sexually attractive than in other colors, the research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed."

Realllllllly.  It went on to say that the author of the experiment, Andrew Elliot,  said "red was thought to be a sexy color for women only".   In talking with my girl friends they say that their husbands prefer it when they wear red nail polish and lipstick but that's about as far as it went.  In fact they said that the only time their husbands took note of what they were wearing was when they were wearing nothing at all.

Now I must admit, while Mr. Elliot's research consisted of seven experiments that were divided into two parts with between 20 and 57 people, I only asked two different friends.  Perhaps I should have asked three more just to eliminate any doubt.  Somehow I feel that nudity over the color red will win popularity contests with men every time.  Then again, it would make sense for the color red to be "a sexy color for women only" because if a woman is nekkid, lipstick and nail polish would still remain!

Personally, I think the results  in Mr. Elliot's study were flawed, you wanna know why?  But of course you do!  It turns out that the women that participated in the experiment were shown pictures of men aged 19 to 22 either wearing red or were framed in red.  19 to 22!  What were the age of the women giving the opinions? Where they pre, post or currently menopausal?  What exactly were they wearing that was red? Boxers or Briefs?

I say we get some middle aged men out there and dress them in red.  Keep it consistent, put em all in Santa Suits.  Who doesn't like Santa?  (Well, Jimmy H. doesn't but that's neither here nor there.)  We can use color blind women as a control group, reckon it will work?

The biggest question of all is this; Who funded this research?  I need their number!  Perhaps I could finally get some answers about Spam and who out there is purchasing it to the point that they now have 10 varieties? (only 7 are carried in my local Walmart, but my research has shown 10 actually exist)  I  love Spam, so it would be a labor of love to do the research and get that report out to the public.

Another thing that just came to mind; The color red is also associated with the "red light district" or "Ho's" and Santa says Ho,Ho, Ho.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.......

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