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Did it have some good sex too? haermm

It always does

I actually prefer sober sex, or sex on champagne haermm

sober sex is probably better ermm

Ja link-rape

I have weird taste in men hmm

How so?

Like I dunno what I'm attracted to in someone's face, but every time I point out a babe, my friends seem to disagree. I wish there was like a test you could do where it's just picking between faces on a screen and then it would give you results about what you favourite features are.

That would make life so much easier and more creepy...someone should get to that!

Why creepy? I think it's a cool psych experiment to find out what triggers attraction in different peoples' minds ✅

No, no, no, ignorance is bliss and such, we don't want to know too much about that stuff!!!

You are nutty, I would pay good money for that service.

And also then for the service that follows where the data is plugged into a dating website, which would then analyse people's faces and suggest matches for you based on your preferences.

You could have an additional physical attraction score, like on OK Cupid, just that they do it with frivolous and pointless things like personality.

I feel like you're being sarcastic haermm

If you think about it, my idea is probably the least superficial method isn't it? It has nothing to do with preconcieved notions of what you think you SHOULD find attractive, like blue eyes and a straight nose. It's purely chemical, just entirely what your brain responds to. What you find attractive at a psychological level doesn't necessary have to be conventional does it? You could find out you have a thing for freckles without having ever realized that before. shrug

Yeah, you are right, and at any rate it's not like one can easily help their preferences, even if they are stereotypical. I do like the idea, it would just from a curiosity perspective be interesting how much variation there is in what aspects people like.

I feel like it would very much be ethnic. I am growing more and more convinced that different cultures would respond to different things. There's that Photoshop thing going around Facebook about people editing the one girl's picture based on their cultural preferences, interesting to see.

I think you would just have to eliminate the ability for the subject to choose between two pictures, but rather just hold up photos wordlessly of different people with similar features in a random sequence and monitor when their brain lights up. Because I totally think that given a choice people might still choose the picture they think best represents typical ideas of beauty rather than what they actually find attractive. Can't fake brain activity though.

Originally posted by silver_tears
Because I totally think that given a choice people might still choose the picture they think best represents typical ideas of beauty rather than what they actually find attractive. Can't fake brain activity though.

They've actually studied this and the results are fairly predictable for women but not so much for men.

Women with certain traits are universally seen as attractive by both men and women (obviously, not 100%: there are always exceptions).

Men? Not so much. There is an increase in attraction for females to masculine looking males when females are ovulating. But that's pretty much the only consistent thing about what women find attractive in men (besides symmetry, but that was universal across both sexes).*

So a female that exhibits certain traits, regardless of her 'race' will be universally held as attractive. The researchers cited examples of Halle Barry, Marilyn Monroe, and some Bollywood actress that I am too dumb to remember.

*To give an example of this fickle attraction towards men, this is why women seem to either find Robert Pattinson very attractive or not very attractive.

Hmm, seems very likely.

Apparently however, between two women who are identical in looks, men are less attracted to the one on her period and more to the one ovulating. But of course, pictures don't exactly show these things. ermm

And if you had two men who were the same in every way, women would be more attracted to whichever one was having more sex. ermm

Originally posted by It's xyz!
And if you had two men who were the same in every way, women would be more attracted to whichever one was having more sex. ermm

Or money. haermm