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It's widely accepted that men are visual creatures - but women are by no means immune to a bit of objectifying themselves.

Nowhere is this seemingly more true than on the way to work.

While many of us have been gazing, tired and dead-eyed into space while commuting , a vast number of women are keeping an eye out for men who take their fancy.

And one "type" seen on Tube Crush has proven to be more popular than others, according to the academics trawling the site.

Muscles and money are apparently the sexiest male attributes.

Tube Crush is a site where women and gay men secretly take and share pictures of the capital's attractive men on the underground.

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Our questions aside about this being a little voyeuristic and creepy, the site has nevertheless proved to be very popular.

Users are allowed to post comments underneath the picture and invite others to share their thoughts and feelings on the photo.

Researchers from Coventry and Aberystwyth universities have also been perusing the images - for academic reasons - and have analysed the data to discover what women in the capital are looking for in a potential partner.

(Image: tubecrush.net)

Academics say signs of wealth (such as expensive clothes) and a muscular physique were the winning attributes.

Men who wear glasses with a skinnier build, or those who wore less expensive looking clothes proved to be less popular.

Understandably, there's been a reaction to the photos.

The site's existence has raised some important points about double standards.

(Image: tubecrush.net)

Lead researcher Adrienne Evans, from Coventry University's Centre for Postdigital Cultures, said the research shows tastes have not changed as much as people may believe in recent years.

She told The Sun :"From smart-suited City workers to toned gym-goers flashing their flesh, the men featured in the photographs on TubeCrush show that as a culture we still celebrate masculinity in the form of money and muscle.

"They are marking the middle-class, wealthy, mobile and sexually powerful male body, not as a political one as feminists intend it to be, but one that should be actively desired.

(Image: tubecrush.net)

"This celebration of masculine capital is achieved through humour and the knowing wink, but the outcome is a reaffirmation of men's position in society.

"It's a problem as because although it appears as though we have moved forward, our desires are still mostly about money and strength."

So there you have it, in terms of being shallow, we're not that different from men.

Also - does no one ever get caught doing this?