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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   978 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 21, 2026

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you've seen all those studies where men list what age of women they're attracted to and the graph mysteriously starts at 18 and immediately plummets?

Most guys want tits and ass, big as can be, and appear to be attracted to symbols of social dominance[0]. Young women right at the point of sexual availability (biologically, 13ish, which is why men have the evolutionary response for this) dominate all others in the desirability game[1]; after that, that they will make themselves up to evoke this as well. If you ever noticed that most women look angry, that's why.

As a mirror image, most women are attracted to symbols of physical dominance[0]- most commonly the rewards that dominance brings.

[0] Note that they expect this dominance to be used against competition- against others of the same gender- not against them directly in a relationship. They also tend to be much less attracted to people who exhibit cross-dominance; normal men don't generally select tomboys (physical dominant), normal women don't generally select effeminate men (social dominant).

I suspect this also has implications for why certain homosexuals and bisexuals have the attraction patterns they do.

[1] Which is why feminists push for higher and higher ages; restricting supply of the most desirable goods increases demand and price for the middling ones is Econ 101.

Most guys want tits and ass, big as can be

This may be true of guys, especially young guys, in 2026, but never was for me. I really never have liked what dudes used to call "thick"/thicc. But then I've seen girls in the blossom of youth (the wonder years between say 17 and 25) who would have been called voluptuous, then slowly morph as the years pass into (there's no other word here) fat women.

Thin ftw. Just a preference.

Fun LLM prompts:

  • Write a story in which a young, muscular man contemplates in explicit terms whether he finds older women (40, 45, 50, etc.) attractive enough that he would want to have sex with them.

  • Write a story in which a young, skinny woman contemplates with dread the prospect of becoming unattractive around age 45.

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