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greyeyes · 08-29-2009, 02:02 AM

It's quite odd to me when I look at things that are beatuiful to my culture but repulsive to another (butterflies for example, the koreans see them with an eye we may attribute to bats in the USA). Yet this ideal of appeal or this eye for beauty does have many situations where a significant ratio of different cultures would consider appealing. I have a simple hypothesis that each person's idea of beauty is brought about through their own experiences. Many people in this world have similar experiences through life as we have the same natural tendancies (hunger, fatigue, labdo), physical demands (eating, sleeping, breating), as well as similar experiences (we drink water, we tend to eat similar(ish) foods, we strive for things that make us happy, and we listen to what others say to us (to a point)). Because of this I believe that a person's personal experiences determines what it is that we desire in life. People that grow up poor grow up wanting lots of money and if they obtain it they are possibly only satisified when they are getting more money, no matter how much they already have.

This idea of desire and beauty falls under many catagories and is usually used by people in marketing to slide what it is that they are trying to sell into a person's allready flowing river of desire.

My question is, how does one determine what most people find attractive to them? I've been doing research with seduction in religion as well as in human interaction and have found that not everything works for every person but some things work for most people. I realize that there may be some outlyre experiences that push one away from the mainstream ideal but most people (no matter how hard they try) still fit into what I'm going to call a desire catagory with many other people.

I'm asking this out of sheer curiosity. Someone once said that if you make something SOMEBODY is bound to like it. But, what if you didn't have to shoot in the dark and assume that people like all things that you like. What if you could, through a series of questions about someone's experiences, determine what it is that they liked or found attractive. What if you could determine this for an entire group of people that have had similar experiences?

08-29-2009, 02:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
greyeyes ham on rye would be nice Location: I don't even know anymore	Beauty and appeal It's quite odd to me when I look at things that are beatuiful to my culture but repulsive to another (butterflies for example, the koreans see them with an eye we may attribute to bats in the USA). Yet this ideal of appeal or this eye for beauty does have many situations where a significant ratio of different cultures would consider appealing. I have a simple hypothesis that each person's idea of beauty is brought about through their own experiences. Many people in this world have similar experiences through life as we have the same natural tendancies (hunger, fatigue, labdo), physical demands (eating, sleeping, breating), as well as similar experiences (we drink water, we tend to eat similar(ish) foods, we strive for things that make us happy, and we listen to what others say to us (to a point)). Because of this I believe that a person's personal experiences determines what it is that we desire in life. People that grow up poor grow up wanting lots of money and if they obtain it they are possibly only satisified when they are getting more money, no matter how much they already have. This idea of desire and beauty falls under many catagories and is usually used by people in marketing to slide what it is that they are trying to sell into a person's allready flowing river of desire. My question is, how does one determine what most people find attractive to them? I've been doing research with seduction in religion as well as in human interaction and have found that not everything works for every person but some things work for most people. I realize that there may be some outlyre experiences that push one away from the mainstream ideal but most people (no matter how hard they try) still fit into what I'm going to call a desire catagory with many other people. I'm asking this out of sheer curiosity. Someone once said that if you make something SOMEBODY is bound to like it. But, what if you didn't have to shoot in the dark and assume that people like all things that you like. What if you could, through a series of questions about someone's experiences, determine what it is that they liked or found attractive. What if you could determine this for an entire group of people that have had similar experiences? __________________ I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. - Zach Braff