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It’s not men who spend their time secretly ogling women - it’s women, according to a revealing new study. And it is the fairer sex that gives their rivals’ bodies a good visual once-over, found Bristol University researchers, rather than their supposedly Neanderthal partners. Men are more likely to concentrate on a potential mate’s face. The academics came to their conclusions after asking volunteers to examine a range of different images, includingstills from nature documentaries, classical and surrealist paintings, and freeze-frames of couples in films. The last category included one of the final scenes from Love Actually, starring Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon, where the pair appear on a school stage together. Grant plays a fictional prime minister who becomes besotted with a maid at Number 10, and the couple end up kissing on stage at the end of a nativity play. Another scene was from the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in which Audrey Hepburn’s tightly-wound character Holly Golightly tussles over a table lamp with her tenant Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard. The researchers found women weren’t interested in looking at Grant or Peppard: it was McCutcheon and Hepburn they focused on. They spent 61 percent of their time looking at the women in the pictures, and only 39 percent on the men. When they looked at the women their eyes tended to roam around the whole figure, while men concentrated on the face. | 
