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the original looks studies from 1997 were extremely flawed due to the researchers confusing femininity for [[beauty]]. Beauty is a stand alone trait, that has overlap with femininity. Beauty is attractive in both sexes. Some facial features such as full lips are inherently beautiful and are thus attractive on both men and women. Any facial morph were the more "masculine" face has thinner lips, is going to be rated as less attractive. When the feminine/beautiful traits are left alone but the masculine traits exaggerated, the face is more attractive. [[autism|Autists]] have an extremely hard time distinguishing femininity from beauty due to being bad with faces (Prosopagnosia) (face-blindness). | the original looks studies from 1997 were extremely flawed due to the researchers confusing femininity for [[beauty]]. Beauty is a stand alone trait, that has overlap with femininity. Beauty is attractive in both sexes. Some facial features such as full lips are inherently beautiful and are thus attractive on both men and women. Any facial morph were the more "masculine" face has thinner lips, is going to be rated as less attractive. When the feminine/beautiful traits are left alone but the masculine traits exaggerated, the face is more attractive. [[autism|Autists]] have an extremely hard time distinguishing femininity from beauty due to being bad with faces (Prosopagnosia) (face-blindness). | ||
In short women couldn't care less if a dude looks like a chick as long as the guy has some super masculine features, such as strong jaw, chin, hunter eyes, very large full eyebrows, etc. | In short women couldn't care less if a dude looks like a chick as long as the guy has some super masculine features, such as strong jaw, chin, hunter eyes, very large full eyebrows, etc. Still when given the choice between a pretty boy and a [[gigachad|manly man]] women tend to choose the [[gigachad|manly man.]] | ||
Despite previous studies (done as early as 1997) on sexual dimorphism showing feminine preferences in female faces and mixed findings in male faces. A 2014 study on preferences for sexual dimorphism on attractiveness levels in male faces found both male and female participants preferred masculine faces to androgynous faces in high attractiveness, but mixed results in low attractiveness.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886914007132</ref> | |||
Despite mixed results on physical androgyny, empirical study has show behavioral androgyny to be linearly correlated with more opposite sex partners. | |||
There is considerable evidence that human sexual orientation is genetically influenced, so it is not known how homosexuality, which tends to lower [[reproductive success]], is maintained in the population at a relatively high frequency. One hypothesis proposes that while genes predisposing to homosexuality reduce homosexuals' reproductive success, they may confer some advantage in heterosexuals who carry them. However, it is not clear what such an advantage may be. | |||
A study done in 2008 on Genetic factors predisposing to homosexuality increasing mating success in heterosexuals, shows that psychologically masculine females and psychologically feminine men are (a) more likely to be gay but (b), when straight, have more opposite-sex partners. With statistical modelling of the twin data, the study shows that both these relationships are partly due to pleiotropic genetic influences common to each trait. They also find a trend for heterosexuals with a non-heterosexual twin to have more opposite-sex partners than do heterosexual twin pairs. Taken together, these results suggest that genes predisposing to homosexuality confer a mating advantage in heterosexuals,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513808000688</ref> which helps explain the evolution and maintenance of homosexuality in the population. This study doubles as evidence for [[Determinism|genetic determinism]]. | |||
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