Yay! New topic! It always makes me feel warm and fuzzy....okay...a little creepy....just shutup.....Okay, so I was watching the Discovery Channel Sat. night, and they had this special on, about [insert title here]. I found it VERY interesting, but alas, I didn't watch it all. Although the pieces that I did watch, helped a few questions I'd been pondering over, and just general things that you never knew, like that women appear much more 'attractive' when they're ovulating, and what causes 'attraction' is a lightning fast response of the whole person, being evaluated by your brain, and saying that they have good genes, and can reproduce well. There was a lot of other sciencey tidbits that were amazing in their concepts, but that'd take a while...Then I started to wonder, after they said what determines someone to be 'attractive' or not. All of this was based on the opposite sex, seeing the opposite sex. Now, if when you deem someone 'attractive', that's your brain saying that they'd be able to reproduce well, then where do the bi- and homosexual people stand? I mean no disrespect at all for this, if anyone interprets it that way. But a man can't exactly 'mate' with a man, and the same for women. So what causes men to find other men 'attractive'? I've been thinking and thinking, and maybe it's a flaw in genes? Like maybe chromosomes switched for whatever reason, or changed while the fetus was developing? What's you guyses opinion[s] on all of this?Also, if you get a chance to see it, do. It was really interesting.
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The Science of Sex Appeal
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Quote:Then I started to wonder, after they said what determines someone to be 'attractive' or not. All of this was based on the opposite sex, seeing the opposite sex. Now, if when you deem someone 'attractive', that's your brain saying that they'd be able to reproduce well, then where do the bi- and homosexual people stand? How Funny, I was watching the same show hehe... and I wondered the same thing. The show was really interesting, but their explanation on why people are attracted was flawed when it comes to bi-sexuals/homosexuals.Though I guess we could have the same instincts even though the possibility of offspring is impossible. For example I still have the desire to have children and reproduce and I wish to raise my children with my partner even though he and I cannot birth children together, but I am still picking him out of other men to help me raise my children (And obvious I love him). So I guess in a sense it all is the same, just more complicated.
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I saw the same thing... Glad I wasn't the only one at home on a Saturday night... and I wondered the same thing.
I would imagine the same rules still apply the only difference is that a gay man, for instance, is looking at another man from the perspective of a woman. Now that sounds good and shit until you start to add a big macho guys that are attracted to small feminine types of guys... or so it would seem to me. -
How weird to know that at the same time at least two other people I know that I never met were watching the same exact show hehe
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I was home saturday night, but I was Doing an imitation of chinese people, laying in my bed, watching red dwarf.
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Hey hey, in general...sorry...I've been a bad boy... Been busy lately...But see though, you still have those instincts, but, yes I agree that in a sense it's all the same, but it's not at the same time. Because your chromosomes and genes tell you if a woman is good for reproducing, so then I wonder, if there's some genetic fault that makes you see men differently, if they appear as a woman, etc. to your brain, you know? Maybe that's what you were trying to say...I'm not sure, but that's what I think with this, too. (I'm not sterotyping, or putting you/gays down in anyway, if it seems that way, i hope not...congrats on IA and VT, too ) Scotty: Yeah, it does sound good, but consider that the macho guys that like fem-boys, perhaps it's part of that same thing, that something in their brain sees them as women, they resemble them anyway...hips, body shape, etc...And, yes, it is...I had nothing better to do.... Man! It's a Saturday night! WTF?... lol And I'm glad it's not first run, wouldn't want to miss a CT of THAT!! I'll have to look out for it again...