CFS 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Sexual Response Cycle, Sexual Attraction, Mate Choice
28 Jan 2019
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Human faces offer great diversity, and no two people would place them in the same order of attractiveness. If we define beauty as the attributes that combine to make a person sexually attractive: physical traits: appearance, voice, color, non-physical traits: personality, behavior, social circumstances. Average-looking is not usually a compliment: composite faces generated by averaging a considerable number of individual faces are rate more attractive than any of the individuals, computer averaged faces tend to be symmetrical. And they tend to emphasize features common to many faces and are therefore familiar: culture influences: Attractiveness involves senses beside vision: hearing: the sound of someone"s voice, smell: body odor, human sex pheromones, volatile chemicals released in the air from bodies. Incomplete research shows pheromones may trigger or modify sexual arousal in the person exposed to them: sex pheromones in insects elicit automatic mating behaviors, choice blindness: unawareness of the actual reasons for a preference.
