[speakeasy]

I just watched this documentary on discovery channel called The Science of Sex Appeal(it's actually on netflix streaming too if you have an account) and found it so fascinating I couldn't walk away even though I had errands to do. It made me think a lot about how one-dimensional a lot of the "PUA" stuff is. So much is shit that's already encoded in our genes. The show went into great detail about the unique chemicals and scents that men and women give off and how some repel the opposite sex and some attract. These aren't even at our conscious level of awareness but they evolved back when humans had much stronger reliance on sense of smell. The mechanism still is there, but we aren't aware of it and it has a large influence on sexual attraction. One of the most fascinating experiments was when they showed a control group of women photos of men which they were rating as 4s. Then they showed the photos to the experimental group after giving them a dose of this hormonal scent that some men have and the women were rating them as 7s. It was a lot more than that. I'm willing to bet that a lot of guys who were naturals from an early age have a hormonal-chemical cocktail that has given them a biological advantage. Check it out the show if you get the chance, it was really enlightening. They are actually playing this sort of marathon of shows on Discovery channel today related to attraction, sexual selection and evolutionary psychology between the sexes. I know some of you guys are interested in that stuff.