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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by big_chungus on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:52PM (#21300390)
Right, but with humans, the only viable option to fulfill this proposition is a positional arms race of plastic surgery. Innovation in a market is usually good and has brought huge benefits; you can't really "improve" your looks after possibly weight loss and personal care without a doctor. Of course you can usually improve yourself, but dating apps usually mean judgement by attractiveness. It's basically the difference between actual product innovation and better advertising, to use your analogy. You'll just get huge spikes in chin implants and steroids, and everyone will be worse.
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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by EliRivers on Saturday October 19, 2019 @05:06PM (#21300768)
I disagree. There is a huge section of the market that is not simply chasing the most physically attractive purchase possible. It is also the case that, despite the suspiciously homoerotic incel obsession with looking like "Chad" (cf. chin implant hypothesis), there's more to being attractive than looking like Chad and there's by no means only one measure of it.
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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by big_chungus on Saturday October 19, 2019 @05:58PM (#21301018)
Of course that's true, but a move towards platforms like tinder leads to increased reliance on physical attractiveness. The portion of the market which is focused on attractiveness seems to be shrinking as time goes on.
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Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr... by throwaway87378 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @06:14PM (#21301081)
> you can't really "improve" your looks after possibly weight loss and personal care without a doctor.

An appropriate hair cut (which might be going totally bald for some people) is a big deal. This also involves facial hair. Clothes are another easy and very effective thing to change. Eyeglasses. And all these things have to work together.

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