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From: paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: age and attractiveness
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 16:56:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 16:56:49 1985
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> >>> The word "girl" has at least two meanings.  It can refer to any
> >>> prepubescent female.  Also, it is often used to describe any
> >>> adult female who is still young enough to be sexually attractive.
> >FLAME ON!
> >YOUNG ENOUGH ?!?!!?  What makes you think that age has anything whatever
> >to do with attractiveness of *any* kind, let alone sexual ?
> >Flame off
> >Paul Hoefling   (...!tektronix!paulh)
> 
> (End of repetition.  Now here's Eric Osman's [me] response)
> I can only speak personally for myself, and I suspect others have similar
> feelings.  I do not tend to find wrinkled or heavy women sexually attractive,
> which features unfortunately tend to come with aging.
> Hence I do think age has something to do with attractiveness.

Fine, speak personally for yourself, but don't presume to know everyone
else's opinion.  Speaking for *myself*, I find that a person's personality is
*far* more important than their age.  I choose to look at the whole person
whenever possible.
I realize, that physical appearance is all too often the
only thing that's available to base a *first* opinion on, but just be sure
that it is a *first* opinion.  Give everyone a chance, and you'll find some
wonderful people who don't necessarily fit modern society's definition of
"beautiful people".  This society is far too hung up on YOUTH and BEAUTY as
characteristics by which people are judged!

Also, what you're really saying (above) is that what you find unattractive is
wrinkles and/or heaviness, not age as such.  I have seen selected people who
were wrinkled "before their time", and therefore, age is not necessarily a
factor.  Heaviness is not only a side-effect of aging, but of eating habits
and/or diseases or glandular disorders as well.

I realize, that physical appearance is all too often the only thing that's
available to base a *first* opinion on, but just be sure that it is a *first*
opinion.  Give everyone a chance, and you'll find some wonderful people who
don't necessarily fit modern society's definition of "beautiful people".

This society is *far* too hung up on YOUTH and BEAUTY as characteristics by
which people are judged!
-- 

Paul Hoefling   (...!tektronix!paulh)
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