Longer legs are more attractive to the opposite sex

A study suggests: Polish research found both men and women preferred a picture of a person in which the legs had been manipulated to be 5% longer than they really were.

But extremely long legs did not fare as well, the study published in the New Scientist suggests.

Legs that had been stretched to be 15% longer were apparently less of a turn on than the original, normal pair.

The original pair were seen as equally attractive as a pair that had been stretched by 10%.

The researchers at the University of Wroclaw distorted seven pictures of men and women, who had varying leg lengths to start with. They showed the finished products to 218 volunteers of both sexes.