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Post by candicemarlon11 on Sept 6, 2009 20:25:10 GMT -5
I'm attracted only on male celebrities right now.
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Post by missl83 on Apr 11, 2010 23:16:42 GMT -5
For me, I've never gone for guys who resembles my dad, firstly because I havent met any guys who looks like my dad, second, my dad is full Chinese and I seem to have a preference for half chinese/Eurasians. I dont know if it is because most of my closest friends from uni are all Eurasians and that has made me start liking eurasians or because I just find most of my Eurasian friends understand me alot better than my other friends who are full chinese or full white for example.
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Post by Ganbare! on Apr 18, 2010 10:34:18 GMT -5
If OP's theory was true, than we should naturally be attracted to our relatives as we often share analogous facial features. Then why many EAs dating other EAs looking like their siblings reported feeling brotherly love instead of real attraction?
Genetic proximity necessarily involves incest and we all agree it is a marginal phenomenon in most societies whereas our own parents' relationships established that opposites attract. I conclude that we are attracted by a certain level of facial familiarity at best while we avoid at all cost similarity. Anyone has seen many couples where partners look alike? I haven't!
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Post by tbw on Apr 20, 2010 17:34:14 GMT -5
Maybe its not a genetic thing.
For instance - You wouldn't go out with someone who had a face that you just didn't like looking at. There would have to be some certain characteristics that you would associate with attractiveness. I would gather that for most people, we find ourselves good looking first and so look for something similar to what we have. Family may have the same characteristics that we find attractive, but also on a genetic level, we know we have to diversify our genes and so family will not be as attractive as a total stranger with the same characteristics.
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Post by Ganbare! on Apr 20, 2010 18:37:41 GMT -5
Ethnic endogamy is a marginal trend, rurals and Middle Easterners excepted. We may find similar-looking people attractive but the majority of us still procreate with different-looking people.
Why then so few blonde/ginger women marry blond/ginger men? We are biologically programmed to seek a partner that has a different phenotype to avoid our offspring genetical diseases. Nevertheless racialist social pressures and a narcissistic subconscious condition people to find a familiar-looking partner.
That probably explains why bringing a non-Caucasian/Asian partner home is so difficult for most of us.
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Post by admin on Apr 20, 2010 19:22:01 GMT -5
Women are supposedly attracted by a sense of smell to notice a man with different genes. Unfortunately, birth control pills monkeywrench that process, leaving women who dated and married on the pill with a kid and married to a guy that their nose tells them is wrong for them. tinyurl.com/ycerqs4In theory...
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Post by conorsoccr23 on May 25, 2010 20:04:26 GMT -5
this is true its lik wen som1 says their type of bf/gf they mean what gets their motors running
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Post by milkman's baby on May 26, 2010 3:03:21 GMT -5
I'm sorta like missl83 in that I try to avoid males that look closely like my father in physical appearance. That would be, short white males with pale skin, dark brown hair, and green eyes. Perhaps rules out all the Irish-American lads I come across in town. Question is, is this subsconscious or conscious thinking?
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Post by Ganbare! on May 27, 2010 1:07:21 GMT -5
It probably is a conscious behavior as several studies suggest people seek partners looking like their opposite-sex parent. In my opinion it confirms that people look for a familiar-looking partner but not too familiar and considering people seldomly take after a single parent it seems sound like a sound theory.
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