21ST CENTURY PHYSIQUES: I have a dad bod. Here’s why women love it. My six-pack abs weren’t as successful with the ladies.

Yes, ladies, you do like dad bods. You like them a lot, in fact.

Men — and by that I mean male humans above the age of 25 whose testosterone levels no longer burn with irrational desire — have long known women like dad bods. The Internet, it seems, has just figured it out.

How do I know?

Because over the last decade, I have inhabited both types of male physiques — the kind sporting six-pack abs and, more recently, the kind that looks like it should be pushing a stroller and Googling high-blood pressure medications. And yet, the latter physique has always proved more successful for me with the opposite sex. Much more.

Or you’ve just acquired more confidence and status with age, and that offsets the paunch since most women care more about confidence and status than looks.

But let me point out that this has all been said before — so long ago that it was when Salon was actually worth reading.