Reading impresses the opposite sex

Antipodean Andy · Dec 11, 2008

Not a squadron history, pilot's memoir or ops history in sight. Explains my solo "career", I suppose. No wonder my wife shakes her head at my reading list!

Nelson Mandela named biggest literary turn-on | Weird True Freaky | News.com.au

MEN are twice as likely as women to lie about what they are reading to impress on a first date, new research shows.

More than a third of Britons - 39 per cent - were more likely to lie about what books and magazines they had read than they were about their age or their job, according to the research by the National Year of Reading.

For men, the book most likely to win over women was Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, while men were impressed by women who had read news websites before a date, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Mandela's autobiography was sixth-best when it came to impressing men.

Nearly one in five adults - 18 per cent - said they read while waiting for their date to arrive in order to make a good first impression.

More than quarter - 26 per cent - said they would try and entice someone into bed by leaving a copy of the book they had been discussing earlier in the evening by the bed.

The study, which questioned 1543 people, of which 864 were teenagers, found that young people were even more economical with the truth when it came to reading.

Nearly three quarters - 74 per cent - admitted they had pretended to read something when they hadn't, but were more likely to want to be seen reading MySpace, text messages and song lyrics than books.

National Year of Reading director Honor Wilson-Fletcher said: "I love the fact that every generation seems to know that it can help us all increase our potential appeal in the search for love and romance.

"It's not just romantic poetry and the classics that can help us on the road to romance either: websites, song lyrics and current affairs titles are just as important.

"For all the talk of our superficial obsession with beauty, it looks like underneath it all we know that brains contribute to sex appeal too."

But beware: For both men and women, exaggerating the extent of your literary appetite is second only to false boasts about previous conquests in bed.

Top ten reads to impress a man:

1) Current affairs websites

2) Shakespeare

3) Song lyrics

4) Cookery books

5) Poetry

6) Nelson Mandela autobiography Long Walk to Freedom

7) Jane Austen

8) Facebook/Myspace

9) Religious texts

10) Financial Times

Top ten reads to impress a woman:

1) Nelson Mandela autobiography Long Walk to Freedom

2) Shakespeare

3) Cookery books

4) Poetry

5) Song lyrics

6) Current affairs websites

7) Text messages

8) Emails

9) Financial Times

10) Facebook
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Kyt · Dec 11, 2008

Many lie over books 'to impress'

Oh **** my secret is out :>

BBC NEWS | Education | Many lie over books 'to impress'

Nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners, a survey suggests.

Men were most likely to do this to appear intellectual or romantic, found the poll of 1,500 people by Populus for the National Year of Reading campaign.

The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics.

Women said men should have read Nelson Mandela's biography or Shakespeare.

Among the 1,500 who took part in the research were 864 teenagers.

About four in 10 of the 1,500 said they had lied about what they had read to impress friends or potential partners - 46% of men and 33% of women.

Among teenagers, the figure rose to 74%, with most saying they would pretend to have read social networking pages or song lyrics.

One in five adults said they would read their chosen material whilst waiting for their date to arrive in the hope of making a good first impression.

Honor Wilson-Fletcher, director of the National Year of Reading campaign, said: "Reading is a brilliant tool for self-expression.

"I love the fact that every generation seems to know that it can help us all increase our potential appeal in the search for love and romance.

"For all the talk of our superficial obsession with beauty, it looks like underneath it all we know that brains contribute to sex appeal too."
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Antipodean Andy · Dec 11, 2008

Here I was thinking you went for the sympathy vote - "See all my books, I can't help myself, please help me." :becky:

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