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[[File:LaurenHanley.jpg|200px|thumb|Woman with a highly neotenous face despite having well-developed breasts]]'''Neoteny''' or '''pedomorphism''' refers to an adult organism retaining childlike features. In humans, this means a roundish, soft face with large eyes, short nose, full lips and clear skin, but also overall a shorter and weaker stature. Neoteny is a highly desirable trait in women and women are more neotenous than men, both in appearance and behavior (e.g. [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior|adult crying]]). Women use [[fakeup]] to enhance their neoteny by smoothing their skin and enhancing eye contrast.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01208/full</ref> | [[File:LaurenHanley.jpg|200px|thumb|Woman with a highly neotenous face despite having well-developed breasts]]'''Neoteny''' or '''pedomorphism''' refers to an adult organism retaining childlike features. In humans, this means a roundish, soft face with large eyes, short nose, full lips and clear skin, but also overall a shorter and weaker stature. Neoteny is a highly desirable trait in women and women are more neotenous than men, both in appearance and behavior (e.g. [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior|adult crying]]). Women use [[fakeup]] to enhance their neoteny by smoothing their skin and enhancing eye contrast.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01208/full</ref> Compared to other mammals, humans are overall more neotenous as evidenced by their lack of fur, small teeth, smooth skin and large eyes,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny</ref> presumably as a result of self-domestication.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication</ref> | ||
In men, neoteny can also be caused by [[pubefantilism]] (delayed puberty) and very detrimentally affect men ([[cutecel]]). A woman with neotenous features is referred to as a ''fauxbait''. | In men, neoteny can also be caused by [[pubefantilism]] (delayed puberty) and very detrimentally affect men ([[cutecel]]). A woman with neotenous features is referred to as a ''fauxbait''. | ||
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An alternative or additional explanation for men's attraction to female youth may be that women lose their fertility sooner. An older man can still reproduce with a substantially younger woman and does not depend on her ability to protect, whereas women do depend on a protective partner. Women's fertility peaks in their mid twenties, and a clear skin and full lips are signals of youth which women accordingly get selected for as men will perceive women without those features to be older, and judge them to be infertile sooner, reducing their [[reproductive success]]. This alone is an insufficient explanation, however, because young boys prefer girls of their own age who do not have maximal fertility.<ref>Kenrick, D.T., Keefe, R.C., Gabrielidis, C., & Cornelius, J.S. 1996. ''Adolescents’ age preferences for dating partners: Support for an evolutionary model of life-history strategies.'' Child Development, 67, 1499-1511.</ref> | An alternative or additional explanation for men's attraction to female youth may be that women lose their fertility sooner. An older man can still reproduce with a substantially younger woman and does not depend on her ability to protect, whereas women do depend on a protective partner. Women's fertility peaks in their mid twenties, and a clear skin and full lips are signals of youth which women accordingly get selected for as men will perceive women without those features to be older, and judge them to be infertile sooner, reducing their [[reproductive success]]. This alone is an insufficient explanation, however, because young boys prefer girls of their own age who do not have maximal fertility.<ref>Kenrick, D.T., Keefe, R.C., Gabrielidis, C., & Cornelius, J.S. 1996. ''Adolescents’ age preferences for dating partners: Support for an evolutionary model of life-history strategies.'' Child Development, 67, 1499-1511.</ref> | ||
Adaptions for female neoteny may explain male hebephilia, i.e. the sexual interest in pubescent girls which may affect most men,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#It_is_normal_for_healthy_men_to_find_pubescent_.26_prepubescent_females_sexually_arousing</ref> and, as extreme instantiation of these adaptations, it may also explain pedophilia, i.e. the sexual interest in prepubescent girls. In fact, children's smooth skin and innocence may act as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus super stimulus] on men's sexual preferences for neoteny. | Adaptions for female neoteny may explain male hebephilia, i.e. the sexual interest in pubescent girls which may affect most men,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#It_is_normal_for_healthy_men_to_find_pubescent_.26_prepubescent_females_sexually_arousing</ref> and, as extreme instantiation of these adaptations, it may also explain pedophilia, i.e. the sexual interest in prepubescent girls. In fact, children's smooth skin and innocence may act as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus super stimulus] on men's sexual preferences for neoteny. This may also point to female neoteny being a [[Fisherian runaway|Fisherian]] adapation. | ||
Men's selection for paternity assurance may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=560351713504498712&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 See section "Male Tolerance"</ref> | Men's selection for paternity assurance may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=560351713504498712&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 See section "Male Tolerance"</ref> Another explanation may be that signals of childishness and helplessness acted as a means of ensuring continued investment on part of males, thus females with neotenous behavior such as crying had a better chance of accruing resources for their offspring and thus increasing their survival. | ||
== Artificial juvenilization == | == Artificial juvenilization == | ||
Artificial attempts at achieving a neotenous look is called ''juvenilism'' or ''adolescentilism'' wherein people (especially women) attempt to look like adolescents and more childlike often by means of [[fakeup]], even when they are actually [[vicenarian]] or [[tricenarian]], … or maybe even older. | Artificial attempts at achieving a neotenous look is called ''juvenilism'' or ''adolescentilism'' wherein people (especially women) attempt to look like adolescents and more childlike often by means of [[fakeup]], even when they are actually [[vicenarian]] or [[tricenarian]], … or maybe even older. | ||