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Evolution of male sexuality from 10 to 80 years: 10 ....
Evolution of male sexuality from 10 to 80 years:
10. I want something, I don't understand in any way - why
12. I would like to add
14. I want at least some girl
16. I just want this friend, because she gives everyone
18. Everyone wants to! ... try once
20. I want this particular girl, because she does not give anyone
25. I only want this woman, because she is the best!
30. I want that woman over there, because she is someone else's wife
35. I want everyone except my wife
40. I want this 16-year-old silly girl
45. I want a lonely neighbor - she is unlikely to refuse
50. I don’t want anyone, I’m tired of everything, but we must!
55. Would you like to ... podp0chit?
60. I would like at least some woman, but I can’t do it anymore
65. You have to pretend that you still want something
70. Thank God, you don't have to pretend anymore
75. I remember how much I wanted that woman!
80. I remember, I wanted something, but I don’t remember
Ovulation in women is a short period of the menstrual cycle when the possibility is highest. A newborn girl already has about one million germ cells in her ovaries. After puberty, she releases one or two eggs every month. For a short time, they become ready for fertilization. It is the period when a mature egg leaves the fallopian tubes that is called ovulation. Only from this moment is it possible to conceive a child.
As a rule, ovulation in women is accompanied by the maturation of only one egg, but there are exceptions. With excessive production of hormones in one period of the menstrual cycle, one germ cell in each ovary can be produced. Both eggs are healthy and can be fertilized. If this happens, twins or even triplets are born. But the genotype in newborns, unlike twins, will be completely different.
After menopause, as well as during the period of bearing a child, ovulation in women stops. After pregnancy, it returns to its usual pace. But it has been noticed that after childbirth or abortion, the ovulation rhythm changes. The same happens after 45 years, when the female body begins to prepare for the onset of menopause.
So in women? It is generally accepted that this happens on the 14th day from the beginning of the menstrual cycle. But nevertheless, this phenomenon is exclusively individual and is determined by the characteristics of the body's work. Ovulation may occur several days earlier if a woman's cycle is short. It happens that the egg is released on the 18-19th day with a longer cycle.
Ovulation in women is calculated in several ways. The most popular method is the calendar method. To determine the most favorable for it is necessary for 4-5 months to regularly mark the beginning and end of menstruation. This way you can set the average duration of your cycle. If it is 28 days, then the appropriate day for conceiving a child is the 14th. It is much more difficult when the cycle is irregular. Then this method becomes ineffective.
In fact, the moment a woman ovulates does not go unnoticed. There are a number of signs that make it easy to recognize. You need to focus on your own feelings. So, the body can signal both the release of the egg into the fallopian tubes and the end of ovulation. If you closely follow the changes in the body, you can calculate these moments. Most women note that the amount and consistency of mucus secreted changes. There is more of it. In color and composition, it resembles egg white. The moment of ovulation is determined by measuring the basal temperature. Its increase is associated with the production of the hormone progesterone, which is responsible for maintaining pregnancy in the early stages. Symptoms of the body's readiness to conceive can be pain in the chest, lower abdomen and lower back. These sensations are caused by the release of the egg. The pain can last from several hours to 2-3 days.
Last update: 22.12.2018Here Kanazawa addressed a very important issue that often misleads people who do not know the basics of statistics. Does advertising define the desire of women to look a certain way, or were existing trends in beauty formed much earlier and served as the root cause of the advertising that we see today? Despite the fact that these articles were written back in 2008, their relevance today probably only increased. Further adapted translation.
Why men love blonde beauties (and why women want to look like them)
It is generally accepted among sociologists and the public is laying down that the media impose arbitrary images of ideal female beauty on girls and women and make them strive for these artificial and unreasonable standards. Nothing could be further from the truth.
According to this statement, girls and women want to look like supermodels, actresses or pop idols because they are bombarded with images of these women. As a consequence, according to this view, girls and women will no longer want to look like them if the media stops saturating them with such images or changes the arbitrary standards of female beauty.
This point of view was popularized, among many others, by former model-turned-social activist Jeanne Kilborn in her documentary series Killing Us Sweetly.
Apparently, Kilborn and other feminists believe that girls and women are mindless robots who will do and think about anything that ad agencies tell them. Claiming that girls and women want to look like blonde beauties because of billboards, movies, TV shows, music videos, and magazine advertisements makes as little sense as claiming that people feel hungry because they are bombarded with images of food. in mass media. If the media stopped bombarding people with images of food, they would never get hungry!
Anyone can see the absurdity of this argument. We periodically become hungry because we have physiological and psychological mechanisms that cause us to seek and absorb food. And we have these innate mechanisms because they solve an important adaptive problem of survival.
Our ancestors (long before they were humans or even mammals), who for some reason did not become hungry, did not live long enough to leave offspring carrying their genes. Of course, we would be hungry even if all food advertising disappeared today. Advertisements are consequences of our tendency to become hungry, not causes. They speculate on our innate food needs, but they don't create them.
The same is true for the ideal of female beauty. Two pieces of evidence are enough to disprove the claim that media images and “culture” in general encourage girls and women to look like blonde beauties.
Firstly, women dyed their hair light for more than half a millennium, and perhaps two millennia ago, when there were no television, films and magazines (although there were portraits, and it is thanks to these portraits that we know today that women dyed their hair in light color in Italy of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). Women's desire to be blonde predates the media for centuries, if not millennia.
Second, recent research shows that women in Iran, where they are largely unaffected by Western media and culture, and therefore cannot recognize Jessica Simpson in Roseanne Barr, and where most women wear the traditional hijab, are free covering their entire body so that it would be impossible to tell what shape it is, in fact, more concerned about the appearance of their bodies and wants to lose more weight than their American rivals in the country of Vogue and Barbie dolls.
The traditional, overwhelmingly attributable to the preferences and desires of women for socialization through the media, will find it difficult to explain how Italian women in the fifteenth century and Iranian women today strive and achieve the same ideal image of female beauty as women do in modern Western societies. ...
Why, then, do women want to look like stunning blondes? Evolutionary psychology suggests that this is because men want to mate with women who look like them.
The desire of women to look like this is an immediate, expedient and sane response to this masculine need. This simply leads to another question: why do men want to mate with women like them?
Because women who are similar to them have higher reproductive value and reproductive ability, and, on average, achieve more significant reproductive success. There is nothing accidental in the image of the ideal female beauty; it has been rigorously and carefully defined by millions of years of evolution through sexual selection.
Nowadays, men want to mate with women who look like blonde beauties, and as a result, women want to look like them, because our male ancestors, who did not want to mate with women like them, did not leave as many offspring as those who did this.
Let's take a closer look at what I mean by "blonde beauties." Notice, first, that there has been a long line of blondes in the Western media: Pamela Anderson, Jordan, Madonna, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Mansfield, going back to the canonical Marilyn Monroe and even further into history. Likewise, there are many contemporary examples: Jessica Simpson, Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson, among many others.
Readers from non-Western societies may substitute female beauties from their own cultures as appropriate. I don’t know who they are, but despite this, I can be sure that they share many characteristics with their Western competitors.
What are these characteristics? In the next few posts, I will highlight and take turns examining the key features that define the ideal female beauty image. These are youth, long hair, narrow waist, big breasts, blonde hair, blue eyes and big eyes. There is evolutionary logic behind each of them.
Why men choose to mate with young women
One of the main characteristics of ideal female beauty is youth. Why do men choose to mate with young women?
Men prefer young women because they are of higher reproductive value and fertility than older women. A woman's reproductive value is the expected number of children she will have in the remaining period of her reproductive career, and therefore peaks at the very beginning of her period, gradually decreases throughout her life, and reaches zero at menopause.
Her fertility is the average number of children she currently has at any age, and peaks between the ages of 20 and 30. The logic of evolutionary psychology suggests that, because of this, men are attracted to adolescent girls and young women, despite the laws of civilized society regarding marriageable age.
Remember that in the environment of your ancestors there were no laws prohibiting sexual intercourse with persons under the age of majority; in fact, there were no laws at all. , arguing that the human brain faces difficulties in comprehending and taking action regarding entities and situations that did not exist in the environment of ancestors, and suggests that the human brain cannot really comprehend written law, including laws regarding marriageable age.
For example, male high school and college teachers in the United States (but not their female counterparts) have a higher-than-expected divorce rate and a lower-than-expected remarriage rate, likely because they constantly encounter girls. and women in the prime of their reproductive value.
Any adult woman they may be married to or date with reproductively pales in comparison to their female students. It might also explain why most don't last too long. Actors constantly encounter and interact closely with younger generations of rising movie stars, while their model actress spouses can only grow old.
In this regard, here is a small autobiographical digression, which, nevertheless, explains my point of view on the importance of youth in ideal female beauty. When Alan S. Miller and I began writing the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters in 2000, we chose Pamela Anderson as our ideal of female beauty, an animated Barbie doll, and we named the corresponding section of the book Why Men Like Pamela Anderson (and why do women want to look like her)? "
However, over the years, it has ceased to meet the requirements. The Rescuers show stopped in 2001, and in 2007 Pamela Anderson turned 40. As a result, we decided to replace her with Britney Spears, who at that time was a perfectly virgin, marriageable princess. Well, you know what happened to her lately. Next candidate please!
As we searched again for some other ideal feminine beauty to replace Britney Spears, it eventually dawned on us that no matter who we chose to use, she would go out of style pretty soon due to a significant penalty imposed on youth in favor of ideal female beauty.
If we were writing our book 30 years ago, the section would be titled "Why do people like the Farrah Fawcett Majors (and why women want to be like her)?" (except that evolutionary psychology did not exist 30 years ago, and we would have nothing to write about in our book!).
This would make our book seem really out of date; Ferrah Fawcett turned 60 in 2007. Because we wanted our book to be read over time and didn't want it ever to look out of date, we ended up choosing not to use a modern example of a stunning blonde.
Why men prefer women with long hair
Mostly men prefer women with long hair. And most young women choose to grow their hair for a long time. Again, the male choice for women with long hair is the reason why women choose to grow their hair for a long time. The question arises: why do men prefer women with long hair?
Since a human fetus grows inside a woman's body for nine months and then a mother breastfeeds her newborn baby for several years afterwards, the woman's health is vital to the well-being of the baby.
Diseased women do not make good mothers much more than when sick men do not make good fathers. In view of this, men are interested in choosing healthy women as mothers of their children. One of the reasons men prefer young women, other than their higher reproductive value and fertility (as discussed in my previous post), is that young women tend to be healthier on average than older women.
How can men assess the health of their potential partners? There were no clinics surrounded by ancestors; male ancestors had to judge for themselves the health of women. One of the reliable indicators of health is physical attractiveness and this is the reason why men like beautiful women, as I mentioned in the previous post.
Another good indicator of health is hair. In healthy people (men and women), the hair is glossy, shiny, while the hair of sick people loses its luster. During illness, the body needs to consume all available nutrients (such as iron and protein) to fight the illness. Since hair is not essential to survival (compared to, say, bone marrow), hair is the very first thing the body will turn to in order to collect the necessary nutrients. Because of this, poor human health is primarily found in the condition of the hair.
In addition to this, hair grows very slowly, approximately six inches per year. This means that if a woman has shoulder-length hair (two feet long), it is an accurate indication of her health status in the past four years, because from the moment the hair grows, the wearer has nothing to do with it afterwards.
A woman may be healthy now, but if she has been sick for some time in the past four years, her long hair would indicate her past painful condition. And there was nothing in the ancestral habitat that a woman could do to make her hair look healthy and shiny if she was not healthy. This is also the reason why older women tend to wear short haircuts as they tend to become less healthy as they age and they don't want traitorous signs of their current health condition hanging from their heads.
If you want to see this process in action, do a little experiment yourself. Find a stranger in a public place (for example, in a park or at a subway station). Observe her from behind, not looking at her face, hands, clothes or anything else touching her, but only look at her hair.
Try to guess her age solely from the condition of her hair and nothing else. Once you come up with a rough figure for her age, walk past her, turn around and sneak a look at the woman's face. You will find that on very rare occasions you will be surprised at her estimated age if you look at her face and her entire body, because usually the condition of her hair is a very accurate indicator of her age. Now you have established the importance of hair as an indicator of age in the conditions of ancestral life.
Why 90-60-90 are ideal female parameters
What are the ideal female parameters? 90-60-90. Why are they considered ideal female parameters? It turns out that these numbers were not chosen arbitrarily. There is a meticulous evolutionary logic behind them.
An evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, Devendra Singh, has experimented with different societies to demonstrate what men have about a low waist-to-hip ratio (waist divided by hip size).
Familiar with drawings of female figures that are identical in all respects except for the waist-to-hip ratio (ranging from 0.7 to 1), most men in Singh's experiments prefer women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7, which is very close to the waist-to-hip ratio. any with proportions 90-60-90 (0.67).
I personally and unofficially recreated Singh's experiments in three different countries on three different continents (USA, New Zealand, and UK) and got the same results as Singh. The results seem to be quite uniform in every experiment in every country; most men prefer women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7, and most women prefer men with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.9.
Why do men want women with a low waist-to-hip ratio? Singh argues that this is the case, since healthy women have lower waist-to-hip ratios than unhealthy women.
A variety of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and gallbladder disorders rearrange the distribution of body fat so that sick women cannot maintain a low waist-to-hip ratio.
Women with a low waist-to-hip ratio are also more fertile; it is easier for them to conceive a child and do it at an earlier age, because they have a large number of important reproductive hormones. And of course, women who are already pregnant with a child from another man cannot maintain a low waist-to-hip ratio.
The waist-to-hip ratio in women also varies, albeit very slightly, during the menstrual cycle; it becomes lowest during ovulation when the woman is fertile. Thus, men are unconsciously looking for healthier and more fertile women when they are looking for women with narrow waists.
Singh's preference for a low waist-to-hip ratio also explains the popularity of corsets in many Western societies throughout history as a device to make women's waists look as tight as possible, and the current fashion among young women to expose their bellies.
This also explains why it is teenage girls, rather than menopausal women, who are more likely to bare their bellies as a direct signal of their fertility (ability to conceive), just as young women rather than older women release their hair as an open signal. their health.
The importance of the waist-to-hip ratio in determining the fertility of women explains the importance of the second and third numbers in ideal female parameters 90-60-90. But what about the first 90? Why is it important for women to have 90 cm breasts? This is the topic of my next post.
Why men prefer women with large breasts
For evolutionary psychology, it has long been a mystery why men prefer women with large breasts, especially since the size of a woman's breasts has nothing to do with her ability to produce milk; women with small breasts can produce as much milk for their babies as those with large breasts.
Therefore, women with large breasts do not necessarily make better mothers than women with small breasts. Why, then, do men prefer women with large breasts? Until recently, there was no satisfactory answer to this question.
Then-Harvard anthropologist Frank Marlowe came up with a solution to this conundrum in the late 1990s, though in hindsight it's another mystery why no one had thought of it before.
Marlowe makes the simple observation that breasts are larger and therefore heavier, sagging more noticeably with age than small breasts. Thus, it is much easier for men to judge a woman's age (and her reproductive value) based on whether she has larger breasts than if she has smaller breasts, which do not change in shape with age.
Recall that in the living conditions of the ancestors there were no driver's licenses or birth certificates that men could check and find out how old women are. There was no calendar and, thus, there was no concept of birthdays among the ancestors, so the women themselves did not know exactly how old they were.
The male ancestors needed to infer a woman's age and reproductive value from a few physical signs and the condition of her breasts served as a very good clue, but only if she was large enough to noticeably change her shape with age. Males could more accurately determine a woman's age and only try to mate with younger females if they had large breasts. Marlowe hypothesizes that this is why men find women with large breasts more attractive.
Not too long ago, there was an alternative explanation for evolutionary psychology as to why men prefer women with large breasts. A study of Polish women shows that women with both large breasts and narrow waists have the highest fertility, as evidenced by their levels of two sex hormones (17-β-estradiol and progesterone). Therefore, men may prefer women with large breasts for the same reason as women with thin waists.
Further empirical evidence is needed to assess which of these two competing explanations for evolutionary psychology is more accurate. This is just one of many areas in evolutionary psychology where competing hypotheses exist - a sign of an active, healthy science and clear evidence that critics of evolutionary psychology, who claim that it is not amenable to "mere fairy tales", are simply ignorant of the topic.
Men can accurately determine a woman's age and reproductive value if they can directly study their breasts and other physical characteristics (such as body fat content and distribution, as evidenced by a thin waist, as I explain in a previous post).
But what would men do if they could not directly observe women's bodies? What if a woman's body is hidden, for example, by warm clothing? Men need another way to determine a woman's age: the color of her hair. This is the topic of my next post.
Why are blondes stupid
Why are blondes having more fun? Because gentlemen prefer blondes. Why do gentlemen prefer blondes? Because they have developed psychological mechanisms that predispose them to prefer women with blonde hair. What for?
The idea that blonde hair is a feminine ideal dates back at least half a millennium, and possibly two millennia ago. There is evidence that women during the Roman and Renaissance times dyed their hair blonde long before the discovery of peroxide in 1812. Women throughout history have aspired to be blonde so much that they did it without the help of peroxide.
Some people believe that men prefer blonde hair because blondes tend to have lighter skin, which they prefer. But that seems to be wrong. While men prefer women with lighter skin tone because it is an indicator of higher fertility (a woman’s skin color darkens if she’s pregnant or taking pills), the lightest skin color corresponds to red hair rather than blond; however, according to one study, both men and women have a strong antipathy towards partners with red hair.
It turns out that men prefer blonde hair for the same reason they prefer large breasts: both are accurate indicators of a woman's age and, therefore, reproductive value.
What sets blonde hair apart from all other hair colors is that it changes dramatically with age. Young girls with light blonde hair usually grow into women with brown hair (although there are very few women who retain their light blonde hair into adulthood).
Therefore, if men choose to mate with fair-haired women, they unconsciously try to mate with younger (and, as a result, healthier and more fertile on average) women with higher reproductive value and fertility.
It is no coincidence that blond hair evolved in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, where it is very cold in winter. In Africa, where our ancestors developed for most of their evolutionary history, humans (men and women) remained predominantly naked.
In such an environment, men could accurately determine a woman's age by the distribution of fat on her body or by the firmness of her breasts (which I discussed in a previous post). Men in cold climates did not have this opportunity, because women (and men) in such conditions were wrapped warmly.
This is probably why blonde hair developed in cold climates as an alternative means for women to advertise their youth. Under these circumstances, males responded with a predisposition to prefer to mate with fair-haired females; those who developed had, on average, greater reproductive success than those who did not, because, unbeknownst to them, they ended up mating with younger, healthier women with higher reproductive value and fertility.
Incidentally, this also suggests that the stereotype about the empty head of blondes may have some statistical basis and be true (since in fact all the stereotypes are correct, as I explain in the previous series of posts).
Why do people think blondes are stupid? Recall that the human brain, including the stereotypes that it generates, is adapted to the living conditions of the ancestors (as suggested). What will be the average age of blondes in the natural conditions of their ancestors (say, in Northern Europe 10,000 years ago) in the absence of hair dye? About 15. What would be the average age of brunettes in the same natural conditions? Approximately 35.
A 15-year-old woman will inevitably be more naive and less experienced, mature and wise (in other words, stupid) than a 35-year-old woman, regardless of her hair color. It’s not that blondes are dumber than brunettes, but that young women are “dumb” (less knowledgeable, experienced, and mature) than older women, and blonde hair is a reliable indicator of exceptional youth.
There must be the same logic behind the stereotype that women with big breasts are stupid. In the conditions of ancestral life, without plastic surgery or even bras, only very young women had large elastic breasts.
Why are blue eyes attractive
The typical description of ideal female beauty is always accompanied by "blonde hair, blue eyes." After Marlowe proposed a solution to the riddle of why men prefer women with large breasts, the attractiveness of blue eyes remained the only mystery to be solved in the area of characteristics related to physical attractiveness.
We learned why men prefer women with all the characteristics that characterize Barbie or the typical blonde beauty, and we learned the evolutionary logic behind each of them. But eye color, even more than hair color, seems like a very arbitrary trait. Why should women with blue eyes be different from those with green or brown eyes? Yet the preference for blue eyes seems universal and undeniable.
There is another link in the secret of blue eyes. Unlike all the other characteristics discussed earlier in this series of posts (youthfulness, long hair, narrow waist, large breasts, and blonde hair) that are considered attractive to women only, blue eyes are believed to be attractive in both women and men. ...
For example, the typical description of an attractive man is “tall, dark-haired and handsome,” not blond; Unlike blondes, fair-haired males are not universally considered attractive (because females tend to mate with older males rather than younger ones).
And yet, as the examples of Frank Sinatra ("Mr. Blue Eyes") and Paul Newman (who famously mocked that he did not want his epitaph to read: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes were brown"), show, that men with blue eyes are considered attractive in the same way as women with blue eyes. And so it seems that the answer to the question "Why are blue eyes attractive?" should include more than just male sexual preference.
The attractiveness of blue eyes remained an evolutionary mystery until my graduate student, Lee Ann Turney, proposed an innovative solution in her class abstract, which she borrowed from me in the spring of 2002.
As far as I know, her explanation for the attractiveness of blue eyes is the only one that anyone has ever proposed, and at least has superficial plausibility. But, of course, it must undergo rigorous experimental tests before it can become an acceptable explanation.
Turney notes that the human pupil dilates when an individual acts with what he likes. For example, the pupils of women and newborns (but not men) dilate spontaneously when they see babies. Thus, pupil dilation, usually beyond the individual's conscious volitional control, can be used as a reliable indicator of interest and attractiveness.
Most people don't even realize that their pupil size changes when they see something they like, so it would be difficult to trick others into deliberately controlling their pupil size. We cannot help showing our interest and attraction to other people through the size of our pupils.
In what follows, Terney makes two simple observations.
First, any human pupil is dark brown, regardless of the color of the iris that surrounds the pupil and determines the color of the eye.
Secondly, blue is the lightest color of the iris in humans.
The result of these two observations is that it is easiest to determine the pupil size in blue eyes. If you come across people with different eye colors and have to determine whether any person likes you or is interested in you, all other things being equal, it is easiest to recognize the level of interest or attraction of a blue-eyed person.
Terney's argument, which I'm sure may be true, is that blue-eyed people are considered attractive as potential partners because they are interested in us or not the easiest to determine. It is easier to “read the minds” of people with blue eyes than those with eyes of any other color, at least when it comes to being interested or attracted.
One of the benefits of Turney's solution to the blue eye puzzle is that it not only explains why partners' blue eyes are considered ideal, but also explains why, unlike all the other features I have covered in this series of posts. , blue eyes are considered attractive in both sexes.
It is just as important for women to read the minds of men as it is for men to read women's; Considering that the consequences of mistakes when attracting by the “wrong” person are much more significant, women should have a greater need to decide whether their potential partner looks genuinely interested in them or not. The negative consequences of being fooled by a deceitful admirer are far more important for women, so blue eyes should be a more important trait in men than women.
In this regard, I believe that Turney's logic may also explain why people with dark brown eyes are often considered "mysterious."
They are enigmatic because their thoughts - that is, whether they are interested in us or attracted to us - are much more difficult to define. The color of the dark brown iris is very similar to the (universal) color of the dark brown pupil, and therefore it is very difficult to estimate the size of the pupil in dark brown eyes. In one study, many people, both men and women, show a dislike for dark brown eyes (just as they do for red hair).
Why women with big eyes are attractive
Another trait considered attractive in women is large eyes. However, unlike blue eyes (discussed in the previous post), huge eyes are considered attractive only to women and not to men. Why is that? Why are big eyes seen as attractive in women and not in men?
There are at least two different reasons why big eyes are an element of ideal female beauty. First, as briefly mentioned in the previous post, large eyes (along with full lips, large foreheads, and smaller chins) are indicators of high estrogen levels. And women with higher estrogen levels find it easier to conceive than women with lower estrogen levels. Therefore, women with big eyes, on average, become better partners than women with smaller eyes.
The second reason is that large eyes are a property of neoteny (common in children and babies). Because human eyes do not grow in size to the same extent as the rest of the face and head during development, the size of the eyes relative to the face decreases as we grow.
As we all know, babies (and newborns of other mammalian species) have relatively larger eyes compared to older children and adults. As a result, people (both men and women) with big eyes are often perceived as younger than they really are. Since, as I explain in a previous post, men prefer younger women, they prefer women with neoteny characteristics such as large eyes. This is another reason why large eyes (typical of babies and children) are a component of ideal feminine beauty.
You can try to dismiss this explanation of the attractiveness of women with big eyes to men. You may (correctly) point out that males do not try to mate with babies and young children; that would be extremely inadequate because they are not fertile. Now, you may ask: why do men prefer women who, in fact, look like children?
This is a very good time to introduce an important concept in evolutionary biology: uncontrolled selection, sometimes known as Fisher's uncontrolled selection, named after British geneticist Ronald A. Fisher, who first proposed the hypothesis.
As a side note, if you've ever collected rudimentary statistics in college, you may vaguely think of something called the "F-statistic" or the "F-test." The “F” in “F-statistic” stands for Fisher, who invented the test and made other significant contributions to the development of statistics. This is why, unlike the t-statistic, z-test, or chi-square test, "F" is always capitalized.
The concept of uncontrolled selection assumes that when members of one sex prefer partners with certain genetic traits, then in the process of sexual selection the members of the other sex will possess the trait in increasingly exaggerated forms.
Elk antlers are a good example. Moose cows prefer to mate with male moose that have larger horns because such males can beat other males with smaller horns in competition for territories and mates, and since the size of the horns is largely determined genetically, their offspring will also have large horns. attractive to potential partners.
Ultimately, male moose will have larger and larger antlers until their antlers are simply too large. They become so large that they create obstacles for feeding and survival and even for fighting other males, which is the original goal of having large horns first. However, males still exhibit emphatically large horns because the trait is preferred by females and evolves according to Fischer's uncontrolled selection.
Perhaps the same process occurs with the preference of women with neoteny traits by men. As males choose to mate with younger females, females are pursuing more and more neotenic characteristics that make them appear not only to be of marriageable age and puberty, but ultimately not even puberty, like children and babies.
Male preference for blond hair could have gone through a similar uncontrolled selection. As Carlene Flora, Senior Editor at Psychologytoday, pointed out to me earlier, many young blonde children stop being blond and their hair turns dark long before they reach puberty (as Carlene did).
Therefore, by choosing to mate with women with light blonde hair, men are often (inadequately) attracted to children under puberty. Their preference for women with big eyes may be similarly inadequate. However, male preference for women with neoteny traits and the possession of such traits by women have evolved through uncontrolled selection.
Why men are deceived by women and modern technology
So, men like women who look like blonde beauties or Barbies, and women want to look like them, because each of their key features (youthfulness, long hair, thin waist, big breasts, blonde hair, blue eyes and big eyes) is an indicator of youth and therefore health, reproductive value and fertility.
There is a well-thought-out evolutionary logic behind the image of the ideal female beauty. By now, discerning readers who have followed the posts in this series could catch the irony of it all. Nothing I have said in earlier posts in this cycle is true anymore.
Through the use of facelifts, wigs, liposuction, surgical breast augmentation, hair dye, colored contact lenses and plastic surgery, any woman - regardless of her age - can have all the fundamental features that determine the ideal female beauty.
A very small part of Pamela Anderson's appearance is natural. Today, a 40-year-old woman can rely on modern technology to still look like a 20-year-old. Farrah Fawcett at 60 looks better and more youthful than most "regular" women half her age.
And men fall in love with them. Because the savannah principle ("the human brain has difficulty in thinking about and taking action on entities and situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment") suggests that the brain of men cannot really comprehend silicone breasts or dye to lighten hair, since these things do not existed in the conditions of their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
Men can cognitively and consciously understand that many blondes with elastic large breasts are not actually 15 years old, but they still find them attractive because their formed psychological mechanisms are deceived by modern inventions that did not exist in the natural conditions of their ancestors.
EVOLUTION OF WOMEN
Report of the leading lecturer of the Society for the Protection of Men, Doctor about historical
Sciences Pan Sukhodryshchenko Uryuk Uryukovich on the topic: "Classification and evolution
women from the point of view of commonplace erudition ”.
1). The female of a man or, as they say in the people, - WOMAN (we will mean her in the future - as a non-male individual), as well as a man (in what follows we will call him - MALE) - was formed as a person in those the distant times, when the Earth was still quite warm and mammoths and other equally large reptiles ran on it.
In those distant times, a woman not only gave birth to children and cooked broths from these same mammoths, but, if necessary, could personally stand up for herself and her flock. She
She was characterized by a strong physique, a powerful bust and a masculine character -
Rum. We can classify this non-male as -
THE WOMAN IS MANLY.
2) .In the days of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, the female is no longer needed
It was to defend the homeland - tough males mostly successfully coped with this matter.
And the woman had time for personal improvement. She was well built
She was beautiful, distinguished by a meek and gentle character. This non-male we can
Qualify as - WOMAN BEAUTIFUL.
3). In the Middle Ages, a woman, as a non-male, continued to improve. First of all, she became the rear stronghold of the family, skillfully giving birth to more
1 - 3 children, independently engaged in their upbringing, worked a lot around the house,
She kept large and small, horned and not horned pets, learned how to cook food perfectly.
The woman was distinguished by her pleasant appearance, calm character and high efficiency both in economic and personal life.
We will name this non-male individual - WOMAN HOUSEHOLD.
4). In our time, the non-male is almost perfect. At the same time, it is important to measure that during all periods of her development, a woman waged a fierce struggle with males for primacy, both in the family and in society as a whole. The fight was on with the variable
Success. And yet, at the present stage, it became clear that directly seizing power
Women won't succeed. And then a non-male individual, hardened by a thousand-year struggle with nature, with its innate resourcefulness characteristic of it, retreated to previously prepared positions and allegedly recognized the primacy of males ...
A woman in our time is distinguished by a cute appearance, sharp claws, a standard smile, the ability to dress fashionably and defiantly and skillfully use makeup. She is characterized by a cunning and often densely treacherous character, the ability to hide "ends in the water."
We qualify this individual as - WOMAN "ONE-TO-MIND".
LORD MALE!
Join the Society for the Protection of Men - this is your only opportunity to save yourself from moral degeneration and finally crawl out from under the heel of a non-male
Thus, women, in their totality, represent a mafia structure in which everyone, willingly or unwittingly, consciously or subconsciously, exists mainly to satisfy their personal feminine whims. They tricked and flattery into the trust of men and quietly exercise almost unlimited power both in the family and in society as a whole!
LORD MALE!
Join the Society for the Protection of Men - this is your only opportunity to save yourself from moral degeneration and finally crawl out from under the heel of a non-male individual !!!
After all, our desires, especially sexual ones, depend on many factors: hormonal, physiological, hereditary, as well as age. Sexologist Viktoria Chvileva tells about the evolution of female sexuality.
From the very beginning
It has long been proven that sexuality in the physiological sense of this term is something unconscious, laid down even in intrauterine development. After all, as you know, the baby gets belonging to the male or female sex, already at the 12th week. After birth, the child already has a full set of sexual reactions, including erotic arousal.
In preschool age, both boys and girls, the formation of sexual self-determination occurs, they unconsciously choose for themselves the object of sexual attraction. After this comes the stage of erotic and sexual attraction to another person. Further, young people and girls develop in different ways. We will talk about the evolution of female sexuality.
13-17 years old
According to the data, to date, the average age at which girls become women, that is, acquire their first sexual experience, is 13-14 years. At this age, girls end puberty and begin puberty. It is at this stage that female sex drive is especially pronounced. Psychologists call this age a crisis age: the fact is that physiologically a girl develops very quickly, much ahead of her psychological, emotional and social development. She has her period, but her menstrual cycle is still extremely unstable. She, following her natural desires, strives for intimacy with a partner, for whom, most often, she does not feel true feelings. According to psychologists, at this age girls often choose boys as their sexual partners who have already had sexual relations, and often with their own girlfriends.
In fact, as they say, a girl is unlikely to be able to get real pleasure from sex at such an early age.
20 years
At this age, a woman usually has a regular menstrual cycle. Her sexual desire, depending on this cycle, increases and decreases. So, in the middle of the cycle, during ovulation, intimate desires are much stronger than on other days. And this is no coincidence: the level of hormones on the days of ovulation is set in such a way that a woman can become pregnant.
At the age of 20, the psychological and cultural development of a woman catches up with the physiological development that has run away. A woman's worries are usually associated with professional growth - she tries to find her place in life: she studies, thinks about work and, most importantly, consistency. That is why women at the age of 20-25 begin to value such qualities as loyalty, reliability, responsibility in a partner. They are ready to let a man with such qualities come as close as possible, and only with such a stable man are they able to enjoy sex. They especially pay attention to their own appearance, often evaluating it too critically and associating the absence of sexual relations with this particular “disadvantage”. Lack of intimacy with a man at this age reduces interest in sex and fixates all the attention on oneself.
Girls under 25 who choose hormonal pills as contraceptives often have a reduced libido. The tablets can suppress the production of testosterone, the hormone responsible for sex drive. In other women, on the contrary, such contraceptives can increase intimate desires, as they allow them not to worry about an unplanned pregnancy and to relax as much as possible.
30 years
By this age, a woman usually perfectly understands her body, her sexual desires, has a permanent partner, or at least knows who she needs. The libido of 30-year-old beauties is at its best: they reach orgasm more easily, know how to please a man, and are often very pleased with themselves.
Pregnancy and childbirth can reduce sex drive. During the waiting period for a child, a colossal hormonal change occurs in the female body, and the level of estrogen and testosterone is restored within a whole year after childbirth and lactation.
The number of having sex with a partner in the first year after the birth of a baby can be reduced to 2-3 times a month. And it's not just about hormones: the general tired state of the new mother, lack of sleep, a new way of life negatively affect the female libido.
After 35 years, the level of testosterone in the female body begins to gradually decrease, but this does not mean that sexual desire will necessarily weaken.
40 years
The decrease in the level of hormones responsible for a woman's sex life, which began at the age of 35, is gradually continuing. Around the age of 45-48, the period begins. In addition, women often have problems with the thyroid gland - its function decreases, the level of hormones drops, and sexual desires are dulled. But, despite this, some women at the age of 40-45 have a surge of intimate life. They have a career, they have constant material wealth, they have grown up and independent children behind their backs - such a long-awaited comfortable state for a woman contributes to active personal relationships.
50 years
By this age, most women have a climacteric period. About 40% of women in the menopause stage begin to experience a significant decrease in sex drive, as well as other sexual dysfunctions - during this period, the production of hormones estrogen and testosterone by the ovaries is significantly reduced. However, in the remaining 60%, sexual activity in the climacteric period practically does not change. The main thing is that a woman does not torment herself with a completely unjustified feeling of sexual inferiority, she enjoys life and loves herself. As nature does not have bad weather, so a woman does not have a bad time: any age is grace, you just need to relax and enjoy life.
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