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

One thing that I think should hold true for straight
or gay is the preference for symetry.  All the studies
that I've read/heard about/seen on tv seem to say that
one VERY important aspect of physical attractiveness
is symetry -- the more perfectly symetrical the more
attractive -- and ratios between
hips/waist/shoulders/chest and between eye-width and
other facial features, etc.  Studies seem to show that
these *ratios* hold pretty true reguardless of age or
race or culture though actual size preferences may
vary significantly.

One interesting study I heard about said that an
individual woman's preference changes throughout her
monthly cycle with her preference becoming more
strongly "masculine" as her most fertile days approach
and then steadly less "masculine" thereafter only to
repeat next month.

Here in Taiwan the current fad is for really skinny
guys with very androgenous features -- at least among
the teens I teach.  Of course the guys who look like
men find it rather disappointing.

Adam

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 03:10:45PM +0200, Andreas
> Johansson wrote:
> >  whether gay men tend to be attracted by the same
> things in men as are
> >  (heterosexual) women or not? And similarly with
> lesbians and straight men?
>
> It's hard to generalize, but I can share my personal
> experience.
> Most of my gay male friends seem to be drawn to
> relationships with
> other men who are similar to themselves, although
> this sometimes runs
> contrary to their preferred target of ocular
> enjoyment. they do often
> seem to have the same definitions of "hot beefcake"
> as my straight
> female friends.  Sometimes not, though; I have one
> good friend who
> has about the same taste in men that I do, even
> though I'm straight.
> :)  That is, the type of guy I would categorize as
> "hot" is also
> the type of guy he's attracted to, and this is seems
> to be at odds
> with what most of the straight women around us like.
>  For instance,
> neither one of us sees the reason for all the
> attention on the
> guy who plays Legolas in the Lord of the Rings
> movies, but we both
> think the guy who plays John Doe on the like-named
> TV show is hot. :)
>
> I don't know many lesbians, but the "like attracts
> like" rule for
> relationships seems to be less prevalent with them,
> and they do
> seem to like to look at pretty much the same variety
> of "hot babe"
> that I do.
>
> -Mark