Sexual attraction: the magic formula

Times Online ^ | May 28, 2006

[gate2wire]

I hope you catch her one of these days.

[Pharmboy]

LOL! I always catch her by the backstretch, but sometimes it's "C'mon...I have too much to do right now."

[rbg81]

I dunno. Assuming no major BO or BB is present, I'm pretty sure smell has little to do with my mating choices. Physical appearance determines the initial attraction (0-1 minute), but then the girl must be mentally stimulating (1 hour - 2 weeks). The last (very) important characteristic is sanity, which can take a while to determine (1 day - 6 months).

[Recovering Hermit]

...and that men and women strongly value intelligence in a mate. Preferences for these qualities — beauty, brains and resources — are universal. The George Clooneys and Angelina Jolies of the world are sex symbols for predictable biological reasons.

Yep...a couple of real rocket scientists.

[MountainDad]

Yeah, my thoughts too!

[RandallFlagg]

Sexual attraction: the magic formula

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[longtermmemmory]

read for later

[GiovannaNicoletta]

LOVE your tagline.

[SC Swamp Fox]

The last (very) important characteristic is sanity

I was thinking the same thing as I read the portion of the article that mentioned how a woman's preferences changed during their menstrual cycle. Let's face it, the reason many of us (men) did not want to commit in our 20s and early 30s is because most women we met were just plain nuts.

[TET1968]

It's about discovery.Revealing oneself a layer at a time.
This takes journey takes time.
The phrase," My love for her/him, grew slowly and not without difficulty"
offers the most probable truism.
Read Pride and Prejudice, I think it offers more insight then the Sniff study.

[rod1]

The attraction of opposite MHC types is particularly interesting since among numerous offspring there would be a greater chance to have offspring immunologically withstand a ravanging disease. Clearly an advantage across generations.

This was first shown in a series of research papers using MHC-congenic mice all the way back in the late 1970s-early 1980s (I used to teach on this topic, etc.) and later confimatorey evidence was pbtained with human studies.. The odor route was shown when they could use urine from the mice rather than the whole mouse to show MHC-determined preferences. And the studies were all initiated quite by accident when a lab tech noticed that the matings had been far from random. The individual finally convinced the profs that the mice where quite selective when given a choice.

[leda]

me too ... on both :D

[drsbb]

Hello, Everyone:

I'm pretty sure that the hand of God fixed my choice. I had dated around quite a bit and my attraction to these various women was doubtless influenced by the factors in this article. But when I met Melanie, I got hit with the thunderbolt and knew instantly that this was the girl I was going to marry. I'd never had an experience like this with any other woman. It occurred when I met her very briefly and unexpectedly during her job interview. Another person introduced us, we spoke for less than a minute and she buzzed on to her next appointment in the interview. I walked into the class I was teaching and told one of my students I'd just met the woman I'm going to marry. Melanie took the job. We began dating in September, I proposed in November, and we got married in January. That was 27 years ago.

She was and is quite a babe, but my response to her was not sexual. It was much more overwhelming, like a born-again experience.

Isn't odd that academic research never seems to ask about this possibility?

[theFIRMbss]

>Sexual attraction: the magic formula

[Nightrider]

i lucked out...been married going on 32 years...

[MainFrame65]

When is a dating service going to start collecting and exchanging sweat samples?