Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> > > Are all straight women and straight men attracted by the same
> things?
> > > And where do you place post-op transgendered persons attacked to
> same
> > > gender?
> >
> >Well, there's supposed to be a set of features that are considered
> >attractive
> >in all cultures, and therefore presumeably are "hardwired". A given
> >individual
> >may of course always be a freak.
>
> There was a study done 2 or 3 years ago which reached the conclusion
> that
> people are attracted to those with features which come closest to an
> abstract average of the features of those whom they see on a daily basis
> (I
> guess blind individuals aren't attracted to anyone). They arrived at
> this
> "average" face via morphing pics they had taken. I saw nothing to
> indicate
> they even considered gays, lesbians or transgendered, nor even showed
> same-gender averages to individuals. And I have no idea how diverse or
> dense
> their sampling was.
>
> I seriously question the "hardwired" assumption.
I can only refer to my other mail listing traits that are supposed to be
hardwiredly attractive, and add my personal opinion that the Darwinistic
argument makes it, in the lack of clear evidence, more likely that there is a
hardwired aspect to attrativeness.

                                                    Andreas

PS There are Darwinistic explanations of homosexuality. The latest I heard
invokes the "big brother effect", namely that gay men tend to have more elder
borthers than other men, and asserts that homosexuality is a side-effect of
actions by the foetus to defend itself from the mother's immune system, which
is assumed to be on its guard against male signatures since the earlier male
foetuses.

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