You're doing it wrong...
A really long time ago, I started reading a book called "Mean Genes" Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan; it is a study on human behaviour. It sounds ambiguous, and yes: it was bad!
I'd put it down for a long time, partly because I was too busy at the time and also because I was getting a little bored with it. However, some reason I'm not entirely sure about, I picked it up again and it was surprisingly well done; until it started into the evolutionary psychology. In the 'Beauty' I had to pause a few times with disbelief, but this paragraph really shocked me:
All animals seek mates that help them in their quest for reproduction. Features that help in this struggle will be attractive, and women advance their interests by joining forces with high-status men. Have you heard about the powerful female senator who had sex with her young male intern? Neither have we. Great power, when held by women, is not an aphrodisiac.
RAGE! Okay, for a start that example is totally missing the point. Assigning mens' supposed reluctance to hook with a woman in power to inbuilt biological needs is a huge fallacy. Women have only recently been accepted into the world of politics and business and even now they have many problems. I think the reason their are so few examples of men dating powerful women, is due more to centuries of misogynism, rather than some genetic turn-off! Women have been dependent on men for a very long time.
I can think of many, many guys who happen to like strong, powerful women! They don't find it a turn off at all. Also the assumption is incredibly hetero-normative. And in previous chapters they talked about homosexuality in a positive and generally respectful way. Here, they only seem to recognize heterosexuality
Here is another quote:
In addition to status, money plays a central role in male attractiveness. In personal ads, women mention money more than ten times as often as men do. Women also advertise for love and commitment, characteristics conspicuously absent from the majority of ads placed by men. In psychology experiments, women strongly prefer ugly men wearing Rolexes to handsome men wearing Burger King Uniforms.
Again, I think this is social rather than genetic! It has more to do with the fact women have often had to rely on men.
Personally, I like the sweet, dorky guys and couldn’t give a wit about their status or how money they have.
I have backed away slowly from this book and I'm NEVER finishing it.