Why is one guy a God - and the next guy a Dog?

[Guest Thunderbuns]

I have always been intrigued by what makes one guy's face "to die for" and another's "to throw-up over"

 

Generally speaking all faces have the same components.

 

2 eyebrows, 2 eyes, 1 nose, 2 nostrils, 2 lips, 1 chin

 

Now, granted these features vary in shape and size and are arranged differently - but the infinite variety of combinations boggles the mind.

 

So tell me - what is it that makes some so much more attractive than others? They all have the same components!

 

Ever wondered?

 

Thunderbuns

[trilingual]

Actually, there have been studies of this. I don't remember all the things that went into it, but elements that make faces attractive included overall symmetry, space between the eyes, space between nose and lip, etc. I assume having an unblemished complection has something to do with it. So would shape of eyebrows, length of eyelashes, dimples, cleft chins, etc., but those are more in the "optional" category, I think.

 

Keep in mind that there's a difference between "beautiful" or "attactive" and "sexy." For example, Brad Pitt doesn't do a thing for me, although he's certainly pretty. However, he has a weak chin, and that ruins it for me. Give me the strong, chiseled, lantern-jawed types anytime! Ben Affleck, for example!

[Guest RushNY]

I also think it's downn to what YOU believe to be "good looking",everybody has their own ideals of what Mr Right should look like and everyone will have their own favorite things e.g tri's strong jaw,nice eyes,color of eyes,lips,nose we will subconsciously(sp) think that's what makes a guy hot ...me give me light brown eyes and good kissable lips and i'm (almost)anyones:*

[Bilbo]

Another study was done where they somehow averaged people's faces into each other (morphing?). The psychs found that the more faces that were averaged together to make one face, the more attractive people found that face. So, perhaps to many, whether they realize it or not, beauty is simply the absence of all but one of the things we feel or have been taught to feel are unattractive. One does always need at least one beauty spot, like the large black dot on classic makeup, or like Tom Cruise's upper canine tooth being just slightly out of line.

 

Also, the idea of spaces between facial features brings up another thing. If you look at a lot of the handsome stars, you'll notice that their heads are disproportionately large compared to their bodies. (Also that a lot of them are very short, but I think that this is because it adds to this disproportionality. It was famous that Nelson Eddy had to stand on a box to perform with Jeanette.) (Shortness also makes the same size dick look bigger, of course.) All of this also comes together in porn stars. I remember one that I got to have an autographed picture taken with in a bar once. I can't remember his name right now. (Not Rick Donovan, which is the only name that keeps floating to the surface.) He is known for his humongous dick, and it is truely very large. But it also hangs from a very short body, and his head is very large. Even bigger than mine and I wear a seven and five eighths hat, when I can find one to fit.

[foxy]

At the risk of sounding corny...

I think someone's personalty plays a large part in how attractive they are.

I've known "ugly" people who got more beautiful the more I got to know them, because of how wonderful they are as people.

I've known "beautiful" people who became more ugly as I got to know them.

Granted, this all takes time, but it is ultimately more important.

I'm sure everyone has experienced those days when you wake up in a good mood. You look in the mirror (after that shower) and think "I look good today". Certainly the opposite is true, bad mood, bad hair, etc.

I think if people devoted as much time to their "insides" as their "outsides" we'd be living in a far better world.

[Rick Munroe]

Foxy beat me to it. Beauty comes from within.

 

My neighborhood (Chelsea) is filled with lots of "beautiful" people who are ugly inside. I prefer the beauty you can only see in someone's eyes or smile...the beauty that comes from having a loving soul. It's like in Cher's movie Mask...you don't see Rocky's deformity; you only see his inner beauty.

[foxy]

did you say "beat you"?

[Guest Thunderbuns]

>Foxy beat me to it. Beauty comes from within.

 

I quite agree - beauty DOES come from within. But that's not what I was talking about. If you see three pictures of three different guys. One you consider to be very handsome - one is average looking - and one is a real dog. Why? They all have the requisite number of features, they are just arranged differntly. What makes you prefer one over the others. Inner beauty has nothing to do with it in this case as you can't see beyond the photograph.

 

I don't know what the answer is. I have often pondered the question but have not been able to come to a conclusion. So that's why I asked you guys for your opinion.

 

Thunderbuns

[Matt_Vancouver]

Randy & Dennis Quaid

 

Perfect example of the same genetic pool, having varying results.

Julia Roberts & Eric Roberts .... Julia ...Huge lips, huge nose, huge eyes...all work well together, Eric... well he's not bad, but he's not a stunner either

It's all in the way each individual part works with the rest of it.

Huge cocksucker lips, with a tiny nose and beady eyes... URG!

Sandra Berndhart(that's twice I mention her in one day) has features that would look amazing in the right combination...not that she isn't intersting to look at, but there is something about the eyes, and the nose that don't work with those amazing lips... ya see what I'm saying?

Matt(all for genetic mutation: )(clone michael brandons cock!!!)

[+ deej]

RE: Randy & Dennis Quaid

 

>(clone michael brandons cock!!!)

 

We'll try that this weekend. }>

 

He'll be in the limo with us on the way to the awards show. He's really an absolute doll in person.

[Guest elwood]

Rick,

 

Never met you..but love what you said in that posting.

[Knabegeil]

Interesting observations on this string. Good points about external and interior beauty. But, may I offer the classical criterion for EXTERNAL beauty proposed long ago by Aristotle and more recently by George Santayana.

 

There are three. In one form or another, they have already generally been mentioned on this string. I only attempt to give them a more compact form.

 

The first is integrity. A beautiful face must have all the parts a face should have, i.e., two eyes, etc.

 

Second, harmony. The parts must be arranged in such a way that none is too large, too small, too far to the right or left, etc.

 

The third is kind of hard to crystallize, and that, perhaps, is at the core of the discussion. Classic philsophers used the the Latin term, claritas, to describe this third quality of beauty. A free translation might be "shiny-ness." It refers to a qualitiative difrerence that makes, for instance, Brad Pitt more handsome than Gene Hackman. It is a certain radiance that attracts the viewer to the one who is beautiful because he-she posses a certain something lacking in most others.

 

Now, departing from classical philsophy, I would say possession of these three qualities does not give anynone the right to exhibit attitude or to automatically be the unwelcome recipient of attention from another.

 

So, if you are walking through Chelsea, by all means, admire the gorgeous hunk you just passed on the sidewalk. But don't be surpirsed if he has no time for anyone except himself, or if he rejects your unwanted attention.

[trilingual]

>So, if you are walking through Chelsea, by all means, admire

>the gorgeous hunk you just passed on the sidewalk. But don't

>be surpirsed if he has no time for anyone except himself, or

>if he rejects your unwanted attention.

 

This is the part that I don't get. These guys devote God only knows how much of their lives to working out at the gym, and spend big bucks on plastic surgery, all to look "gorgeous," and then they're OFFENDED when someone admires the results!

 

That's one reason I'd rather spend my time in the Latin world. Unlike the uptight U.S. and northern Europe, in the Latin world everybody checks everyone else out. Even if a hot Latin hunk isn't attracted to someone giving him the eye, he almost always takes it as a COMPLIMENT! After all, he worked hard to attract all that attention! Besides, flirting is as natural in Latin culture as eating and breathing. Maybe one day Americans and northern Europeans will wake up, get over their hangups and start enjoying themselves more. The way things have been going, though, it may not be in my lifetime!

[Bilbo]

Jeff Stryker

 

Finally remembered the name.

[Bilbo]

There is an old proverb, which I think is French, which goes something like, "There are no ugly people, only those who do not know how to be beautiful."

 

And I'm not sure that the personality doesn't show in a still picture. Does your gayday work on stills? Many think their's does. Plus, I feel I can see an ungenerous mouth. When a mouth, or a pair of eyes are in a long standing habit of looking a certain way - stingy, mean, lazy, stoned out of their gord, etc., they probably won't totally lose that look posing for a picture.

[Guest Thunderbuns]

>Maybe one day Americans and northern Europeans

>will wake up, get over their hangups and start enjoying

>themselves more. The way things have been going, though, it

>may not be in my lifetime!

 

I quite agree - being "checked out" is indeed a compliment. And as for us getting over our hangup? Well I don't think we should hold our collective breaths - it ain't gonna happen.

 

Thunderbuns