Why doesn't intelligence count as a positive in the arena of sexual attraction?
Why doesn't intelligence count as a positive in the arena of sexual attraction?
Grayson Price
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Ryder Parker
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Adrian Clark
Certain forms of intelligence are actually big positives in sexual attraction. The reason that not *every* form of intelligence is of equal status is because up until now, such a sexually selective preference has not appeared or been cultivated by environmental factors.
Dylan Kelly
because unless she is true waifu they think big foreheads are weird.
Samuel Green
Because it is not in of itself beneficial
>incoming entire board of brainlets
Adam Garcia
It does. autism just counts as a negative so they tend to cancel each other out in people who pride themselves on being intelligent.
Brandon White
Money trumps intelligence as attractor so if you have the intelligence to go into research your disposable income plummets along with your chance of ever getting married.
Wyatt Miller
It absolutely does count. Veeky Forums is just full of cynics and social rejects who failed to find a girl that wasn't shallow.
Carson Baker
A provider is seen as attractive. This, of course, comes in many forms. Physical prowess is one of many - and the most immediately noticeable. It's not in opposition to 'intelligence', in case it seems implied. Resources are the most important factor here. Someone who has resources and the ability to gain resources is attractive, and the trait can be displayed through physical prowess. It was very necessary to be in good physical condition to gain resources through the vast entirety of human lineage (and this trait not entirely gone now - nor is there large reason to think it would be anytime soon). Intelligence in the manner you imply is another method of gaining resources. It seems to have spun into it's own (reproductively disadvantageous) niche. As says, folks who pride themselves on sole intelligence without tangible, material gain can come off as unattractive.
Point: resource gathering is the main factor of attraction. Physical fitness and intelligence are byproducts of resource gathering strategies. Intelligence alone, such as obsessive interest in mathematics, will not suffice for attractiveness quite in the same manner that physical fitness will. Intelligence is useful in this arena insofar as it gains resources. Physical fitness was/is often directly correlated to resources (after all, one needs resources as a prerequisite here).
So, if you're looking for attractiveness through your intelligence, put the intelligence to use in a tangible manner. Make money with it.
Adrian Hughes
It does.