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Lykurg  We're all living in Amerika  1yr ago (putanumonit.com)   4166 thread views

Why Are Women Hot? – Put A Number On It!

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Primarily relevant to here through the discussion of what people claim to find attractive vs. choose, but also considers various other measures of attractiveness. I dont agree with all these analyses but think its worth posting simply for considering the topic in a lot more detail then Ive previously seen.

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The only comment I will venture on this is about your Beff Jezos example:

Supplementing testosterone and ascending beyond competition do seem to drastically move one’s taste to Vizier’s ideal, N=1

Kindly note that lady on the left was his wife and post-divorce, which was all down to him getting the hots for woman on the right, he didn't marry Number Two (even after the affair broke up two marriages). She may have bigger va-va-vooms but she's his girlfriend/partner/whatever the current term is.

Some of that may be post-divorce caution - he doesn't want to have to split up his remaining fortune again if this relationship goes south - but some of it, I think, is 'there are women you marry and women you have fun with, and they're not the same'. The divorce happened in 2019, here it is 2023 and no sound of wedding bells yet.

Bill Clinton is the best example of that idiom. Hillary wasn’t unattractive when young, but she was very much conservative college girl. Jennifer Flowers was not that.

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