Women are fascinated by 'Beauty and The Beast Syndrome'

I found this article in Britian's Daily Express Newspaper. I have condensed it here for your consideration.

Ugly men, according to research published this week, are a safe bet when it comes to love.

Marry an ugly man and he will never tell you your bum looks big or turn his head to gawp at prettier women. Why? Because he is so grateful that you even look in his direction.

Or so the experts tell us. According to scientists at the University of Tennessee, if you choose a facially challenged male then you are going to have a happy life. The study suggests that most ugly men who married attractive women were happy to bask in the glory of their partner’s beauty and enjoyed the prestige of having a beautiful wife.

Women have always been fascinated by The Beauty and The Beast syndrome. How else did the likes of the balding author Salman Rushdie manage to ensnare the stunning model Padma Lakshmi or “lived in” singer Lyle Lovett get gorgeous actress Julia Roberts briefly down the aisle?

I have always wondered how sane, pretty women manage to kiss a man who looks like a pig. Yet for some reason we girls insist on believing that if he is a beast there is bound to be some kind of wonderful beauty lurking beneath his pockmarked face.

Dating an ugly man is often a survivalist choice. Women don’t trust handsome guys. We think they will cheat on us as soon as our back is turned.

Simply put, ugly men try harder. They have learnt to adapt their dating skills since they were the spotty-bespectled-fat-boy in the playground. Just like a blind man learns to develop his other senses, the ugly man relies less on his looks and heightens his other traits.

As far as I am concerned, should you date an ugly man you do so at your peril. An ugly man is far more dangerous than his handsome counterpart when it comes to love.

While your cheating antenna are up when you date a gorgeous man, the ugly one charms his way under your defences. I know of one ugly man who could smell a recent divorcée/infidelity victim from miles away. He was there at the ready with his hankies, all kindness and attention.

To begin with, you feel great and ugly man is grateful. Which not only makes for better sex but also means he treats you like a princess. But gradually the power shifts.

Imagine you are both at a party – you look gorgeous, he looks, well, most definitely not gorgeous. But hang on a minute, he is with you and other women are intrigued: he must have something special, they think. When an ugly man steps out with a decent looking woman, it greatly increases his value. Suddenly other women are looking at him as if he were a hot prospect.

The point is, if a man is going to cheat on you, it makes no difference if he looks like the Elephant Man or George Clooney. Playing away is more about the ability and desire to deceive you. When it comes to getting an illicit leg-over, it is a matter of personality not looks.

Here is the link for the entire article: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/39373/Beware-the-ugly-male