Magazines can be useful for a number of reasons; they can provide tips on cooking, decorating, and even communicating. But unfortunately, they can also leave people with the wrong impressions about how they should look or feel. Just as women believe that men want a woman who looks like a super model, men tend to believe that women prefer a man who exuberates masculinity, for example: a muscle ripped body.
If females are searching for a male to settle down with, then will she choose a male with more brains or more brawn?
If this hypothesis were to be tested, you would find that majority of the time a woman is going to select a male with brains over brawn, to settle down with. In an article about men’s health, males with high testosterone levels were 50 percent less likely to marry, and men with the least testosterone were more likely to get and stay married (Daniel Amen, 2012). The male hormone, testosterone, increases in males when they work out (Jeff S. Volek, 2007). Therefore, men who work out a lot to get those big muscles are going to have much higher testosterone levels. In studies where women were given the option between different mates, they choose the males that exuberated less testosterone when looking for a long-term relationship. The women that were looking for short-term relationships, where reproduction was not a possibility and/or factor for mate selection, those women chose men with higher testosterone levels (Coren L. Apicella, 2008).

Works Cited
Coren L. Apicella, A. D. (2008, November). Testosterone and financial risk preferences. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from Evolution & Human Behavior: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(08)00067-6/fulltext
Daniel Amen, M. (2012). Understand What Sex Does to Your Brain. Retrieved March 11, 2013, from Men's Health: