Poor looks, deteriorating self-esteem and inability to make effort are the leading causes as to why some men are still single, a new study has revealed.
While being single is associated with some positives such as improving one’s physical life, the study claim that most men are longing to fall in love but haven’t got women in their lives.
While men might have different excuses to neutralize their relationship status, being single could also be linked to the outward attractiveness and diminished flirting techniques.
Menelaos Apostolou who is the assistant professor for the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, at the University of Nicosia, posed a question on Reddit to determine why some men had no partners.
The question received 20,207 reactions, with several thousand of the responses directed to other people’s answers. The most reply given was “poor looks”, with six hundred and sixty-two individuals choosing that as their response. Self-esteem issues closed on second, with low effort and lack of interest in relationships coming in third and fourth respectively.
“Single modern men often lack flirting skills because, in an ancestral pre-industrial context, the selection pressures on mechanisms which regulated mating effort and choosiness were weak,” said Apostolou as quoted by The Independent