Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: age and attractiveness Message-ID: <2093@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 01:46:08 EST Article-I.D.: sun.2093 Posted: Thu Apr 4 01:46:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Apr-85 02:10:47 EST References: <293@unc.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 31 > > (Paul Hoefling) writes: > >What makes you think that age has anything whatever to do > >with attractiveness of *any* kind, let alone sexual? > >Speaking for *myself*, I find that a person's personality is *far* more > >important than their age. > >This society is *far* too hung up on YOUTH and BEAUTY as characteristics by > >which people are judged! > > (Frank Silbermann) writes: > I agree that people should not be JUDGED by their youth and beauty. > But what does judgement have to do with erotic impulses? > Lust may certainly be highly correlated with physical appearance, but love and success of relationship tend to be correlated with personality. Sex and Beauty both fade with age, for both men and women. Love and Spirituality may grow with age, thus making the personality the long-run winner. But then that relates to long-term relationships and marriage and such, and these things are of little concern to the youths who populate net.sex.... er, net.singles. OH!, you didn't know there was a difference between love and lust? shades of "what is love?" :-) Granted, you may have to have a sufficiency of sexual satiation to see that there are other things besides beauty and sexual lust to a relationship, and that may explain why the net.singles readership doesn't. Hey, Chuqui, what was the distribution of net.singles readers who are out of relationship vs those who are in relationship from your (relatively) recent demographic poll? i.e. does being a single mean "not married", "alone", "multi-relationships" or what? Sunny -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)