Have you ever thought about what physical attributes you are attracted to in people? Are you attracted to anything that might be considered unusual? Everything that might be considered unusual?
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I personally tend to be attracted to qualities that aren't traditionally considered beautiful...as well as a few that are. Big ears...big nose...big lips...big smile...combine it all together and you'd think I'm attracted to people that look like the guy on the cover of Mad Magazine. What can I say, maybe I'm weird. Or maybe the traditional ideas of what are beautiful are bullshit.
What attracts me to certain people? Why do I like certain features on certain people that may even be considered ugly by some? Hell, why does it seem like I don't really have a type, when supposedly that's supposed to be a thing?
I'm pretty sure who I've been attracted to in the past influences who I'm attracted to now. Sure, maybe I might have a few types, but it's not there's something ingrained in my biology to make me like girls with glasses or short hair...or long hair...or strong cheekbones. Maybe the strong cheekbones. But those are features that just so happen to coincide with features that people that I once liked possessed...
Maybe my particular culture or whatever has influenced what I like a bit as well. What can I say? I'm a nerd. I like nerdy girls.
What about my particular upbringing makes me tend to like bronzish skin though? Do my genes want me to copulate with people of mixed races because I'm what's known as Heinz 57 myself? Why are Indian girls particular attractive to me?
I know exactly what I'm extremely nervous to talk about my attraction to people of certain skin color. It's because society and media is so hyper-aware of their own bigotry that normal people can't even deal. That's a lot easier question.
Not like I'm actually attracted to people of a particular race. Just aware that my cromag brain wants to mix up my gene pool a bit more than it is already.
Is that what it is though? Is there some kind of gene influence on my cromag brain where it's saying that I need to strengthen certain genes for my progeny? Or maybe I'm just looking back on people I once loved... I dunno...