We don't know what the default state of human attraction is because we don't have access to a control population of human beings without the same shared societal history of the rest of us.
Which is to say, it's incorrect to broaden your personal attractions to all men, and especially incorrect to try and couch it in some argument of biological naturalism.
Re:On Aging Alone (2021)
by auggierose on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:49AM
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Not assuming either point of view here, but just because you cannot run an experiment, doesn't mean that the result of the experiment will be negative. So you don't know if GP is incorrect or not.
So you are saying sexual attraction is cultural? because that's exactly what the gay community is fighting against since the 1950s.
Re:On Aging Alone (2021)
by LambdaComplex on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:32PM
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Well, I'm certainly not gonna go ask the Sentinelese about their dating preferences
if you had to guess, what do you think people in that control group would be attracted to?
Re:On Aging Alone (2021)
by woyakcrying_jpg on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:49AM
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I think you should stop extrapolating your personal preferences to half of the world's population, too. Something as varying as sexual attraction can't be reduced to a fixed trait that "nature" has figured out. Indeed we don't choose what we like, and that is fine. You don't have to rationalize your preferences to anyone.
Sadly he is right. Men choose younger as a sign of being able to reproduce. Women, older with high status, because they can reproduce until very late.
Women can't. Over the age of 30 there's severe risk.
I think you should stop demonizing men's natural sexual preferences. Key word here is natural, we don't choose what we like. Nature choose for us, and young women are better at having children. Same reason young girls choose tall, rich men, because they are better at surviving and have more resources for raising children.
Nature maximizes reproduction and that's what we like.