.................thank God for that!
What exactly defines “ugly”? I’ve known many handsome men, considered to be “great catches” only to be turned off completely by their ugliness inside. And most beautiful women I’ve ever encountered are so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t have a clue how to be a beautiful person.
Personally, I’m more interested in a person’s manner than their physical attractiveness; but I do think pride in oneself is important, ie. paying attention to personal hygiene and making the most of what God gave them without being obsessed about their looks. Letting yourself go demonstrates a lack of self-respect and for your partner, which is unnecessary and destructive to a relationship.
Sexiness evolves according to what we see over and over. This mechanism, Winkielman noted in a statement, “accounts for cultural differences in beauty — and historical differences in beauty as well — because beauty basically depends on what you’ve been exposed to and what is therefore easy on your mind.”
Past studies seemed to show that people look at human faces in search of cues as to how likely a person would be to make a healthy baby. While that may be true, Piotr Winkielman of the University of California at San Diego and colleagues didn’t even use people in their attractiveness test. They showed test subjects patterns of dots. The sets those people liked the most were the ones that closely resembled a “prototypical” set they had been conditioned to recognize.
In short, we like familiar things. We come to anticipate how things are supposed to look by seeing prototypes. Then, when we encounter something that resembles the prototype, our brains don’t have to work too hard to recognize and process it. Winkielman calls this “fluency.” The more fluent we are, the easier it is and we show our appreciation for that ease by rating a fish, or a bird, or a car, or a set of dots, or Scarlett Johansson, as more attractive than something unexpected or unusual.