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JS.Hardy's avatar

Something I find much more interested than the distribution of preferences themselves:

The strong instinct for people across the spectrum to evangelize about their preference! Skinny girl guys can't STAND that there are men on the internet who actually prefer a BMI in the 24-28 range and must visciously shame them and enforce what they see as the norm and vice versa.

Why the hell would anyone WANT every body to be attracted to the same things as them and compete with them for it? It makes no sense to me.

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Sophie's avatar

baseddd

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JC's avatar

Yeah the next one should be about BMI / body type preferences!

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JS.Hardy's avatar

Based chubby chaser???

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IceFl4re -'s avatar

"All Politics is Sexual Pathology".

It's like that because:

1. Having them being more common means you can ogle more people, even if merely as a sex object

2. The possibility of living in a world where no one meets your fetish / criteria is DEEPLY terrifying to them

It's not about "competition", it's about how easy / hard it is to find the ideal mate

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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

It looks like guys on the left were a lot more likely to prefer genitals, and men on the right to prefer feet. Which is odd.

Is there even such thing as a female with a foot fetish or is that an entirely male thing? Very hard to imagine any women liking male feet. My husband literally has the ugliest giant ogre feet I've ever seen, so thankfully I don't care about such things!

Also did you ask about age? Bc I feel like older guys would be more into boobs since pre-2000s everything was about big boobs and small butts, and that kind of reversed the past 20 years. Most playmates and models in the 90s and before had flat asses.

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Sophie's avatar

Yep, I did! No significant differences between ages. And I’ve never found a foot attractive, but I bet there is some woman somewhere out there who can’t get enough of her man’s feet 😂

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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

Huh. I don't think I believe any women are actually attracted to male feet. When they say feet were involved in a fantasy, I bet it was their own. Who doesn't like a foot massage? Hell I pay for the extra long ones with the hot stone treatment when I get a pedicure. But I bet no women actually lust after and want to suck on male toes. They might do it, but not seek it out. Now I am wondering how much prostitutes charge to suck a guy's toes as opposed to something else lol. Might cost more!

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

Darn.

But good on you to be honest about the null results

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Jacob Johnson's avatar

Oof, I was hoping that a correction could explain fertility differences

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Sophie's avatar

Which fertility difference?

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Jacob Johnson's avatar

Rightist have a significantly higher reproduction rate than leftists. I forget by how much. I thought make boob guys were rightist and boob girls had more kids or something like that, Ig not :/

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Sophie's avatar

Wouldn’t that just be because right wing people want more kids and start younger?

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JC's avatar

And not aborting

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JC's avatar

Also birth control...

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Jacob Johnson's avatar

Probably, but I was wondering if that genetic preferences overlapped with a specific sexual preference. Perhaps they instinctively pick more fertile girls out of a group or something. Idk man -that’s why I’m so grateful for your survey.

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JC's avatar

Probably because of birth control / abortion use

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Mark Hayes's avatar

So, your thesis is that the only way to properly "own the Libs" is to breed 'em out of existence?

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Jacob Johnson's avatar

In the long run, as political preferences are largely genetic and the effects of persuasion are near zero, how else are you going to “own the lib”?

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The Emergent City's avatar

Damn was hoping for some kind of bombshell revelation like “boob men are disproportionately fascists” but alas here we are. Still very useful and actionable information thank you for your very important work.

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Sophie's avatar

Nope, to this day, the greatest predictor of fascism is still propensity towards killing jews!

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Ron Wobbegong's avatar

baby girl i'll be disproportionately fascist all day just for u

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Sophie's avatar

Thank you so much 🥹

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Mark Hayes's avatar

I did see one category that the more conservative set seems to be a bit more inclined towards. Feet (God help us) seem to be a bit more popular among on the red end of the spectrum...

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Sophie's avatar

Yeah but there were only 9 of them total, so too small a sample to draw meaningful conclusions!

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Paul Williamson's avatar

Interesting in a certain way, finding nothing really lol, now my question is not if women should vote it’s - “ if men should have to take a political test to vote ?” Because my personal belief is that men are more ignorant on politics than women . And here’s an interesting little fact that not many people know , that Marilyn Monroe actually had an IQ higher than Einstein , just look at her career & life , she did have the world “run by men” eating out of her hand” lmao .

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Jacob Johnson's avatar

My priors lead me to believe both claims are wrong.

1. “Women tend to know more about politics”

2. “Marilyn Monroe had a higher IQ then Einstein”

However, I’m open to being convinced. What are your evidence for these claims?

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JC's avatar

Marilyn was very smart, but I don't think she had a higher IQ than Einstein

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Professor Axelrod's avatar

Hedy Lamarr, famous actress of roughly the same era, was also a notably brilliant lady: she's credited with amongst other things inventing frequency hopping radio (thus eventually giving us GPS, WIFI, Bluetooth, et al). I recall Howard Hughes being very impressed by her mind as well as her appearance; they dated for a time.

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JC's avatar

Yes, Lamarr was a certified genius.

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Bod's avatar

was really hoping i could garner a titbit for making fun of friends or at the very least myself

thanks all the same though

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Sophie's avatar

you can make fun of them or yourself for believing a correlation existed in the first place!

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Bod's avatar

good point :)

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Mako's avatar

Fake news tbh

Boob preference = high iq gentleman/aristocratic soul

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Sophie's avatar

I wish it were so

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ARC's avatar

Funny

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Sol_Seek's avatar

I would have put my money Right Wing Boob Squad. I think that’s called “projecting”.

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Graham's avatar

Team genitals be taking Ls 😔✊

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Sophie's avatar

Just imagine how many L's our actual genitals are taking

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Graham's avatar

I don’t need to be called out here 😠😠

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JC's avatar

Meaning what, you had a genital injury?

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Sophie's avatar

Lack of men paying attention to them

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JC's avatar

Are you not getting a ton of sex? I'm surprised, what with all the posting and being hot on substack. Why not?

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Sophie's avatar

it was just a joke lol, no complaints here

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Graham's avatar

No sex

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JC's avatar

Well you gotta fix that! Sex is very important

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JC's avatar

Go Team Genitals!!

I was sad to see there are not many of us.

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Apple Pie's avatar

Hey Sophie! Thanks for helping promote my surveys. Looking carefully, I did manage to get a significant result on this subject: https://thingstoread.substack.com/i/161358152/ok-but-what-about-this-issue-of-bosoms-versus-bottoms

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Sophie's avatar

Omg!! Will check it out

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Apple Pie's avatar

> And no matter how annoying we all find Walt Bismarck

Wait, you mean there are other people on Substack who find Walt annoying? I thought I was the only one!

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Sophie's avatar

we're in the vast majority

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Apple Pie's avatar

OK then! Well on that note, would you be willing to help promote my romantic preferences survey?

https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/romantic-preferences-survey

(I've been trying to get Kryptogal to link to it, but she's dragging her feet, and I think it may be because she doesn't realize Walt is annoying.)

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Sophie's avatar

Sure!

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Dr. Paul's avatar

Special tips from my team about this issue from a program years ago: https://open.spotify.com/track/5GuylXOB7g9yo6ExqRNgeJ?si=YFGzz_a-RAuee80ozEcdMg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5SYJbKM495zGn3gUemGody

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PostPlandemicChronicles's avatar

Right winger Ass Man checking in.

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