Now there’s some interesting social science on dad bods and getting laid. Dr. David Frederick, an assistant professor in health psychology at Chapman University, published a study on the correlation between height and BMI and sexual partners. The findings appear in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and are kind of surprising: Dudes who could be classified having “dad bods’ have more sexual partners.

Here’s the breakdown, via Yahoo:

For the study, researchers analyzed the results of an online survey of more than 60,000 heterosexual men and women with a mean age of 37.

The height and BMI of participants directly impacted how many partners they had. Among the findings:

For men:

-Only men classified as “very short” had a lower median number of sexual partners (five), compared to taller men  (seven).
-Men who were overweight and obese had the most sexual partners (eight), followed by those with a normal weight (six).
-Underweight men had the least sexual partners (four).
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While the findings that overweight men had more sexual partners than normal weight men (eight and seven partners, verses six, respectively) sound surprising, Frederick says it’s what he expected to find. “Overweight and normal men fit the conventional ideals for men,” he says. “Men are expected to appear tough or athletic. Very slender men can face stigma for not appearing powerful.”

What do you think?