Reddit reviews Sexual Choice A Woman's Decision: Why and How Women choose the Men They Do as Sexual Partners

No, its from a pop-science book:

http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Choice-Womans-Decision-Partners/dp/0595092160

That alone doesnt make it true or false, but this isnt peer-reviewed research either.

There were shit ton of reasearch on this and women and men alike put more importance to face than body for long or short term relationships alike:

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=544&cookieConsent=A

For example here is a good paper on the role of smell which also references some previous research:

http://people.cst.cmich.edu/swans1bj/Herz%20Inzlicht%2002%20matechoice%20smell.pdf

"In one influential study, Buss (1989) compared the self-reports of male and female
mate preferences along various physical and social factors in 37 different countries. Results
demonstrated that good looks were the primary physical criterion in mate choice for both men
and women."


I cant find the best research on this which showed that women usually put facial/physical attractiveness lower on a scale of importance, but if you analyze their choices it turns out for both men and women physical/facial attractiveness was the main factor.



edit: Here is an article on this:

http://www.eharmony.com/blog/2012/01/17/physical-attraction-matters-%E2%80%93-to-women-too/#.VMzmZy5ecjw

Also it turns out people who are more attractive prefer physical attractiveness while choosing a partner, while less attractive people put emphasis on other things as well:

http://www.livescience.com/2307-romance-matters-beautiful.html