{"id":40338,"date":"2019-11-07T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40338"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:03:30","slug":"qotd-evolved-sexual-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/qotd-evolved-sexual-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Evolved sexual differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Because male sexuality is all about the visuals, men&#8217;s magazines are filled with pictures of naked women with freakishly large breasts and women&#8217;s magazines are filled with pictures of beauty products and ass-cantilevering $2,000 stilettos. Men evolved to go for signs of reproductively hot prospects &mdash; an hourglass figure, youth, clear skin, symmetrical faces and bodies, and long shiny hair: all indicators that a woman is a healthy, fertile candidate to pass on a man&#8217;s genes.<\/p>\n<p>Women co-evolved to try to make themselves look reproductively hot, though that&#8217;s not how we think of it. [&#8230;] Because men are turned on by disembodied photos of boobs, butts, and coochies, they&#8217;re quick to pull down their pants, click their cameraphone, and text some woman they just met a close-up of their zipperwurst. Really bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Men who&#8217;ve done this should pick up a Harlequin romance, which is basically porn for women (from the ravishing by some hot gazillionaire to the final commitment-gasm).<\/p>\n<p>See any photo spreads of male crotch shots tucked in there anywhere, boys?<\/p>\n<p>This is not an error of omission. Women aren&#8217;t fantasizing about seeing your willy; they&#8217;re fantasizing that somebody in the royal family will pluck them out of suburbia and marry them in Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Alkon, <em>Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck<\/em>, 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because male sexuality is all about the visuals, men&#8217;s magazines are filled with pictures of naked women with freakishly large breasts and women&#8217;s magazines are filled with pictures of beauty products and ass-cantilevering $2,000 stilettos. Men evolved to go for signs of reproductively hot prospects &mdash; an hourglass figure, youth, clear skin, symmetrical faces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57,28,41],"tags":[130,139,255,43],"class_list":["post-40338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-evolution","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-auC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52513,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions\/52513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}