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Old 05-06-2008, 04:29 PM
SydneyK SydneyK is offline
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Daemon, when you say like attracts like, my question is why? What causes the attraction?
I think the question here is flawed. It sounds like you're looking for ONE cause; as if it isn't possible for attraction to have several "causes". One plus one plus one equals three, but one isn't a "cause" of three.

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I think for men it's visual, but for women it's for more reasons than that.
Ouch. There's a slap in men's faces.

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Women are attracted to the tribal leader, someone who exhibits those characteristics of status.
Again with the generalizations.

Look, I see where you're going with the whole mice/human comparison thing. Lots of scientists have gained lots of information through testing mice (and other animals). Studying one thing can often be an avenue to understanding something else, but when you're talking about something as complex as human sexual attraction, then the comparison is way off.

We have no way of knowing whether the ugly boy mice have better communication skills than the hottie boy mice. And since this seems to play a role in human attraction, well, surely you can see how the comparison doesn't quite work.
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