The Eyes have it!

Apparently, we choose our mates based upon their eye color. Well, only if you have blue eyes. If you have green, brown, hazel, grey, etc, you're a lot less picky. Good for you.

According to an intriguing note in New Scientist for 20 January 2007, a team in Norway has found that, when shown a series of photographs, men with blue eyes were much more attracted to pictures of women with blue eyes than to images of women with brown eyes. On the other hand, neither brown-eyed men nor brown-eyed women showed any preference for eye colour when they were shown photographs.

It appears that the distinction also holds in real life. Blue-eyed men are more likely to become romantically involved with women who have the same eye colour and choose them as partners, claim the researchers.

Blue eyes are acknowledged to be a recessive trait. Two blue-eyed parents should produce a child with blue eyes, whereas the parents of a child of any other eye colour cannot both be blue-eyed, the researchers say. Unconsciously knowing this, a blue-eyed man will tend to choose a partner of the same eye colour so that he is more likely to know if his partner’s baby is the result of a liaison with another man.

Funnily enough, I just realized that all my relationship partners have had brown eyes, and all my sexual partners had blue or green eyes. My eyes change color with my mood - what does this say about me???

Essin' Em

Read the whole shebang in The Pharmaceutical Journal