• panthera_@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    First the article cites men’s attraction to breasts and waist to hip ratio as innate evolutionary selective advantages. Babies can recognize pretty faces. From https://www.calendar-canada.ca/frequently-asked-questions/can-babies-tell-if-youre-pretty

    A further line of evidence relating to infants’ facial representations is infants’ preference for attractive faces. Infants 2 months of age and older will spend more time looking at attractive faces when these are shown paired with less attractive faces (Langlois et al., 1987; Samuels & Ewy, 1985).

    Yet, the author claims that men’s attraction to women with hairless bodies is cultural. She is claiming that advertisement can change people’s perception of beauty. Then how did men’s perception of beauty regarding body hair originate? Did Gillette advertise that women are more attractive without pubic hair? Why has this perception persisted? Persistence is evidence of innateness. If companies including Gillette offered to pay this author and Brandeis University millions to determine how advertisement can change people’s perception of beauty, do you think they can do it? Egyptians shaved their hair to prevent lice. Are bald headed people attractive? Women began shaving their body hair after the invention of the safety razor because they were now able to do it safely. Also, fashion became more revealing.

    Men find stockings on women attractive yet, women don’t wear them as often. Why can’t advertisement change this?

    Evolutionists claim that attraction to earrings on women is because it indicates wealth isn’t satisfactory. Then why don’t women wear it in the nose or eyebrows?

    I’ve been thinking of your hypothesis that female genitalia is an example of something hidden but is attractive to explain men’s attraction to tattoos on women only if they’re small and hidden. Breasts and genitalia are erotic. That’s the reason they’re hidden. Tattoos are not erotic. Also, why wouldn’t a large tattoo on a women’s behind be attractive? A better explanation is that men are attracted to small and hidden tattoos on women is that this doesn’t distract from a women’s body.

    I believe in intelligent design. This is the belief that the universe and life was the result of an intelligent agency. The nature of the designer is unknown because science cannot determine it.