Relsqui comments on Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid - LessWrong

19 Post author: Relsqui 11 October 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: whpearson 13 October 2010 08:12:17PM 3 points [-]

We have to be careful here. We need to qualify the difference between sexually attractive and attractive qualities in a partner. That is the difference between what may make us horny and what we would actually want to live with.

I think most het men know quite well what is sexually attractive to them. We have a very simple function to work out (young and shapely). See any top100 girls fhm list in all its monotony. Compare it to the mixture of age ranges/body types you get in this list .

The attractive qualities in a partner are more complex and men are probably equally bad at knowing this.

Comment author: Relsqui 13 October 2010 09:06:19PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. So I suppose we could say that identifying attractive personality traits is just as difficult on both sides, and how hard it is for a given person depends on that person's priority mix of physical and personal attractiveness.