From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 09:59:14 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick"
> At 04:28 PM 7/4/03 -0700, Spike wrote:
>
> >real explanation may be as simple as this: when I
> >am riding I am having fun. Fun is inextricably
> >linked to copulation. Ergo, all females within
> >visual range get a free half a standard deviation
> >added to their attractiveness.
>
> Karen's account sounds generally right to me, as does Spike's, above
> (raised titers of testosterone, cortisol, etc), but is there also a
> side-consequence selection filter on the *sorts* of people a bike rider is
> likely to *see*?
Also, what obstructs your viewing field while riding? You wear some
sort of riding goggles I assume or a shield. That could give every woman you
see a sort of air brushed look which makes flaws look more beautiful. Or it
could be that you are speeding by so fast that everyone gets a blurred look
which is more attractive. ;)
>Perhaps many more of the obese, the infirm, the old and
> conceivably even the unattractive will be indoors or in cars, while the
> healthy and spirited are strutting their stuff.
Yes, good point too. I was also thinking that the effect of riding
a motorcycle might make your hormonal levels change since it is such a risky
undertaking compared to cars (usually). That increase in hormones shouldn't
happen in a car if it is a risk based increase. (It makes me wonder if the
guys in the late 1800's had the same effect riding in their horseless
carriages.)
>(Granted, you'd also see
> them from your car window, but they wouldn't look at you, unless you were
> buzzing by in a Lamborghini--and I bet *those* guys have a different
> experience of life, or why else would they pay so much for the damned
things?)
I don't know, but it is said, that those guys have smaller tools.
Perhaps they buy Lamborghinis because greater stimulation is needed to find
and activate the smaller tools.
--k
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