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vap0rtranz

Mating and Symmetry

Mar 16, 2009 20:37

Is it just me or are there a perponderance of "scientific" studies about mating and physical symmetry? NPR has been churning out interviews like fanatics these past few years. Now Wikipedia has an article dedicated to it.

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sedeara March 17 2009, 03:11:03 UTC

I find this fascinating as well, especially since your facial tissue actually starts out being the exact same stuff as your brain tissue. Your brain makes your face. I've observed that "artistic types" tend to be less symmetrical than most, with the hypothesis that their left and right brains are more differentiated from one another than most people's (i.e.: their artistic side is especially developed). So maybe incredibly symmetrical people just have incredibly average brains. ;)

vap0rtranz March 17 2009, 03:56:41 UTC

wow. Where did you read this? It would make all the pieces fit together ...

sedeara March 17 2009, 04:00:38 UTC

I *think* I heard it from a lecture I went to by JoAnne Deak, a neurobiologist.

Interesting... dakini_bones March 17 2009, 05:28:49 UTC

But EVERYBODY is asymetrical, even George Cloony. If you take an image of someone and a mirror reversed image, they are sort of shockingly different. I think Dereks face is almost perfectly symetrical and he thinks mine is, but both of us think our own faces are obviously lopsided. Weird.

Re: Interesting... vap0rtranz March 17 2009, 17:23:48 UTC

That is the ultimate test -- the mirror; and the best test -- your partner. Being partnered gives one an advantage here.

BTW: you pick the best pics! :)

ragnarok20 March 17 2009, 08:06:54 UTC

I don't know that one necessarily has to have a fetish for something in order for an imperfection to ruin ones attraction to another. For instance, I don't have any kind of "eyebrow fetish" and there is this one girl whose eyebrows just weird me out. I don't know if they are naturally the way they are, or she just tweezes them to be super shapely, but it really ruins her entirely look for me despite the fact that, other than that, she is super fucking pretty.

vap0rtranz March 17 2009, 17:26:26 UTC

This might be repulsion from idolization. OK, I just made that phrase up! hehe, but it sounds like seeking perfection is a turnoff when it's distracting. For Cate's sake, she evidently just eats the right food.