What is attractiveness?

Question

Three part question.

What makes up attractiveness?

What are the differences between physical attractiveness and sexual attractiveness.

Assuming there is an emotional and physical connection, what else is there?

Answer 1

attractiveness is those qualities that draw others to you
\physical attractiveness is symmetrical features, health, small waist and big hips for girls, for guys big shoulders and small waist, and for a face, to have big eyes, full lips and a small nose.
Sexual attractiveness is anything that makes someone want to bang someone else. It may have ntohing to to with how physically attractive someone is. Maybe their personality is awesome.
I don't know what else there is besides physical and emotional connections. If you don't have either of those, what DO you have?

Answer 2

Before I get into the answer to this, I'd just like to state for the record that I am fat and I have had people proposition me because they prefer fat women. That was at a time when I was borderline obese. So there!

Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. What someone finds attractive has a lot to do with what they see and experience around them from a young age. If you look at couples, especially younger ones, you will find that in general they will find attractive those of the opposite sex who look something like their family member(s) or those who are significantly different. In the first case its what you're familiar with, and in the second case its "opposites attract"

Physical attractiveness is someone's looks. There are social standards on who and what is beautiful and what is not. We all know it based on the models that are plastered in our media. Sexual attractiveness is what turns you on. Frankly, in my case, too much physical attractiveness turns me off. I can't ever take a really truly handsome guy seriously. I just can't.

There's mental connection, experience connection, family connection, etc etc etc

Answer 3

What Is Attractiveness

Answer 4

To most people, attractiveness is commonly known physical features in the face and body of people normally portrayed in the media. Physical attractiveness is what you can see on a person from their outside appearance. Sexual attractiveness is the overall demeanor of a person in the ways that they walk sit or even speak that arouse the opposite or same sex. The difference is, if people don't have a high physical attractiveness they can override it with more of a sexual attitude. There is also mental attraction which the media tells us is attractive and what is sexy at a particular time.

Answer 5

Anything that imparts or evokes an interest.

You may find someone physically attractive, but not want to have sex with them and vice versa. It's a matter of hormones and chemistry.

There are spiritual and mental connection. I think all four are essential for a satisfying relationship.

Answer 6

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder:

http://www.chinapage.org/story/beauty.html

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Origin:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html

Have you ever noticed that good looking girls usually hang out together with other good looking girls, but when it come to couples the lousiest looking guy dates a Pretty girl and mostly vice versa too.

http://anthonysmirror.blogspot.com/2005/11/beauty-is-in-eyes-of-beholder.html

Beauty in eyes of beholder, study confirms:

WASHINGTON: When it comes to something pleasant, it seems that the phrase "easy on the eyes" may hold more truth than earlier believed, for a study has found that objects or people appear more attractive when the mind can process their looks faster.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2037080.cms

Scientists ponder beauty and the eye of the beholder:
Evidence increasingly suggests the human brain is hard-wired for aesthetics.

http://www.sigidiart.com/Docs/beauty.htm

I will give a simple explanation of my own. I will go
to a blind man and describe the beauty of a top cine
actress. Can any amount of description ake him realize
how beautiful she is? He needs eyes to see and
understand for him self.

"When candles are off, all women are fair!"

Imagine an invisible, undetectable force that's powerful
enough to override your sense of reason yet draws you
to someone with an almost animal passion. These aren't
Cupid's mythological arrows, but real shots of human
pheromones.

http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/aphrodisiacs/phermones.html

Welcome to The Scent of Eros:
Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality -

'Scientists in Philadelphia have established for the first
time that the human body produces pheromones, special
aromatic chemical compounds discharged by one individual
that affect the sexual physiology of another'....

http://www.athenainstitute.com/discovery.html

Do pheromones work in human sexual attraction?

They may be odorless and colorless and their function may be
mysterious, but human pheromones at last have the zest of
scientific truth. Researchers at the University of Chicago
have demonstrated that compounds swabbed from the
'underarms' of young women at different times of the month
can alter the length of other women's menstrual cycles,
compressing or expanding the cycles in predictable
fashion....

http://www.ishipress.com/humanodo.htm

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9803/11/pheromones/index.html

What is the force that lights the fuse between two
complete strangers? What current pulses through their veins,
engorges their hearts, occupies their minds and numbs their
texting fingers? Ah, if only

I knew. As magic formulas go, sexual chemistry must surely
be the most valuable. It's intoxicating effects are more
pleasurable and more powerful than any drug and when it hits,
it hits hard. There are the rushes of ecstacy, the gut wrenching
anticipation, fluttering, dizziness, and the diminished
concentration that turns day-dreaming into a full-time job.
And then there are the side effects. A positively Colombian
annihilation of appetite and its confidence- boosting by-product,
weight loss. And it is free. And it is legal. It is bloody amazing.

But no one knows what "it" is. Scientists have managed to
map our genetic blueprint. They understand the subtleties
of hormones and the complexities of the emotional brain.
But the thing that makes two people click remains a mystery.
Theories abound as to what, or why. Those looking for a
magic bullet (or Cupid's arrow) tend to favour the notion
of pheromones - scents secreted by the sweat glands in the
'armpits' and pubic hair. And the relatively recent discovery
of the vomeronasal organ, a small chemo-sensory structure in
the human nose, lends the concept some weight.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030629/ai_n12741733

Science of Love - Cupid's Chemistry:

There are, in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with
their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific explanation.

First is lust. Lust is driven by our sex hormones testosterone
and oestrogen. These hormones are what get us 'out on the pull'.
After lust comes attraction. This is the love-struck phase;
the time when we lose our appetite, can't sleep, and can't
concentrate. This is what we know as falling in love.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/clairemcloughlincolumn1.htm/

Answer 7

Attractiveness is what motivates us to deal with mating.
It's when we groom ourselves to our fullest potential.
The rest is phermones.

Answer 8

Attractiveness is a little like beauty, "in the eye of the beholder".

Answer 9

Is there a difference between physical and sexual attractiveness? I doubt it...Who wants to sleep with or be seen with a fat person?

Answer 10

Detract. Cigarettes will make your skin look gross when you're older, and make you smell bad now.