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In general men tend to focus more on the physiological factors of a woman, than the other way around – does she physically look attractive rather than whether she has an attractive personality.
They say that a man can sum up a woman’s attractiveness within less than 3 seconds.
A woman can find a man sexy and attractive through things other than traditional male good looks. There’s also increasing evidence that we have a chemical attractiveness; in the same way that animals put our “sex chemicals” called pheromones to attract a mate, humans appear to do the same.
Pheromones
Insects such as moths produce extremely powerful pheromones to attract a mate; a male moth can detect a few molecules of female pheromones a mile away and follow the scent back to the female. Humans mimic pheromones by wearing perfumes and body sprays – how many adverts have you seen where either the male or female sprays themselves and are immediately followed by adoring admirers? Actually, we do have our own human pheromones.
People in love can detect the chemical scent of the loved one, leading almost instantly to powerful feelings of love and arousal. Try it yourself, first think really powerful loving thoughts about the one you love, then stand next them and ask them to breathe deeply. Let us know what happens! Did they detect your chemical signals?
Psychology of sex and attractiveness
Acting and feeling sexy can effect changes in the way others perceive you. Women and men who are not overtly physically attractive, at least according to regular conventions, can just “seem sexy”, because of the way they act. You can make another person feel sexy and attractive by complimenting them. You can either praise a certain part of them, or just simply just say “I love your bum (or chest, legs, whatever)”. If we hear that someone finds us attractive we immediately feel more attractive.
Physiological attraction
There’s no doubt that physical attractiveness plays a major part in the initial feelings towards the other person. But that doesn’t mean that we will always feel the same way. Sometimes a colleague we’ve known for years, that we never really noticed, suddenly appears attractive. Or perhaps it’s a friend we’ve known for years, who suddenly generates a spark and for no particular reason you find him / her attractive.
It can be because you hear via someone else that he/ she finds you attractive, and that can immediately generate a feeling of attractiveness towards them. Sometime you can just think about that someone else a different way and you suddenly find them attractive. So the psychology and physiology of sexual attractiveness appear to go hand in hand. Let us know your thoughts.
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