Chapter 29
Visual/Audible Pleasure
People Affected: men
Type of Emotion: sensory reward
Sensory Triggers: the visual and audible differences that separate pre-menopausal, non-pregnant women from other humans
Mental Effect: positive
Key Feature: the more incorrect humans excluded, the stronger the effect
Key Feature: the closer to the reproductive ideal, the stronger the effect
Key Feature: the more novelty, the stronger the effect
Physical Effect: penile erection
Type of Emotion: sensory reward
Sensory Triggers: the visual and audible differences that separate pre-menopausal, non-pregnant women from other humans
Mental Effect: positive
Key Feature: the more incorrect humans excluded, the stronger the effect
Key Feature: the closer to the reproductive ideal, the stronger the effect
Key Feature: the more novelty, the stronger the effect
Physical Effect: penile erection
Purpose
Visual/audible pleasure encourages men to court women.
Female visual/audible pleasure did not evolve. Female visual/audible pleasure did not evolve because male visual/audible pleasure did. Only one gender needs to travel to the other for mating to occur.
This gender difference can be seen in pornography sales and clothing choices.
Women buy a tiny percentage of the pornography sold. Men buy virtually all of the pornographic movies and magazines. Men are virtually all of the customers for telephone sex. Men are virtually all of the customers in strip clubs. If women do visit a strip club, they go with a group of friends as a novel way to socialize.
Men do not dress to be sexually appealing, but women do. Women wear bras, high heels, plunging necklines, skirts, pantyhose and thongs to trigger visual pleasure in men. Men do not make themselves similarly uncomfortable to be visually appealing to women.
Women can feel infatuation or sexual pleasure when looking at a man. These positive effects are mistakenly believed to be female visual pleasure.
Infatuation is triggered when a woman sees a man looking at her. If a woman sees a man looking at her, she can conclude that she triggers his visual pleasure.
Infatuation is also triggered when a woman sees an erect penis. If a woman sees that a man has an erection while looking at her, she can confidently conclude that she triggers his visual pleasure.
Sexual pleasure can be triggered by imagining sex. Women enjoy looking at a man’s bum because they imagine it thrusting, which helps them imagine vaginal pleasure.
Sensory Triggers
Visual pleasure is triggered by the sight of:
Audible pleasure is triggered by the sound of an adult female voice talking, laughing, singing or moaning.
Visual pleasure is not triggered by female genitalia. Female genitalia was not visible before Brazilian waxing.
Visual pleasure is not triggered by eyes. Eyes are not a feature that separates women from other humans. Women apply make-up in the mistaken belief that eyes trigger visual pleasure.
Eyes do trigger affection. Affection is triggered by differences between humans and other primates, such as the unique white sclera of human eyes. Women feel the affection that white eyes trigger when they are looking in the mirror while applying make-up. Eye make-up amplifies affection, not visual pleasure.
Mental Effect
Visual/audible pleasure encourages men to court women.
Female visual/audible pleasure did not evolve. Female visual/audible pleasure did not evolve because male visual/audible pleasure did. Only one gender needs to travel to the other for mating to occur.
This gender difference can be seen in pornography sales and clothing choices.
Women buy a tiny percentage of the pornography sold. Men buy virtually all of the pornographic movies and magazines. Men are virtually all of the customers for telephone sex. Men are virtually all of the customers in strip clubs. If women do visit a strip club, they go with a group of friends as a novel way to socialize.
Men do not dress to be sexually appealing, but women do. Women wear bras, high heels, plunging necklines, skirts, pantyhose and thongs to trigger visual pleasure in men. Men do not make themselves similarly uncomfortable to be visually appealing to women.
Women can feel infatuation or sexual pleasure when looking at a man. These positive effects are mistakenly believed to be female visual pleasure.
Infatuation is triggered when a woman sees a man looking at her. If a woman sees a man looking at her, she can conclude that she triggers his visual pleasure.
Infatuation is also triggered when a woman sees an erect penis. If a woman sees that a man has an erection while looking at her, she can confidently conclude that she triggers his visual pleasure.
Sexual pleasure can be triggered by imagining sex. Women enjoy looking at a man’s bum because they imagine it thrusting, which helps them imagine vaginal pleasure.
Sensory Triggers
Visual pleasure is triggered by the sight of:
- protruding breasts
- plump lips
- wide hips
- slender appendages - head, face, neck, arms, hands, legs, feet
- 8% shorter height
- beardless face
- pubic hair
- non-grey hair
- narrow waist
Audible pleasure is triggered by the sound of an adult female voice talking, laughing, singing or moaning.
Visual pleasure is not triggered by female genitalia. Female genitalia was not visible before Brazilian waxing.
Visual pleasure is not triggered by eyes. Eyes are not a feature that separates women from other humans. Women apply make-up in the mistaken belief that eyes trigger visual pleasure.
Eyes do trigger affection. Affection is triggered by differences between humans and other primates, such as the unique white sclera of human eyes. Women feel the affection that white eyes trigger when they are looking in the mirror while applying make-up. Eye make-up amplifies affection, not visual pleasure.
Mental Effect
Visual/audible pleasure varies with the incorrect humans excluded. The more incorrect humans are excluded by a feature, the stronger the positive effect.
Incorrect humans are men, children, post-menopausal women, visibly pregnant women and not-visibly pregnant women. Correct humans are pre-menopausal, non-pregnant women.
An hourglass figure excludes the most incorrect humans. An hourglass figure is the combination of three features: protruding breasts, a narrow waist and wide hips. The only incorrect humans not excluded by this combination are not-visibly pregnant women.
Protruding breasts and plump lips exclude men, children and post-menopausal women.
Wide hips, slender appendages, feminine voice and 8% shorter height exclude men and children.
Beardless face, pubic hair, non-grey hair and narrow waist exclude one category each. Beardless face excludes men. Pubic hair excludes children. Non-grey hair excludes post-menopausal women. Narrow waist excludes visibly pregnant women.
An hourglass figure excludes the most incorrect humans. An hourglass figure is the combination of three features: protruding breasts, a narrow waist and wide hips. The only incorrect humans not excluded by this combination are not-visibly pregnant women.
Protruding breasts and plump lips exclude men, children and post-menopausal women.
Wide hips, slender appendages, feminine voice and 8% shorter height exclude men and children.
Beardless face, pubic hair, non-grey hair and narrow waist exclude one category each. Beardless face excludes men. Pubic hair excludes children. Non-grey hair excludes post-menopausal women. Narrow waist excludes visibly pregnant women.
Visual/audible pleasure also varies with a feature’s proximity to the reproductive ideal. The closer an individual feature is to the ideal, the stronger the positive effect. The reproductive ideal is what best helps a woman to conceive, gestate, give birth to, breastfeed and protect a child.
Ideal breasts are large and do not sag. Breasts have an optimal size. Freakishly large breasts trigger weaker visual pleasure than average breasts. Sagging influences visual pleasure more than size. Small, non-sagging breasts trigger stronger visual pleasure than large, sagging breasts. Sagging indicates post-menopausal.
Ideal lips are more plump than men’s and children’s. Like breasts, lips have an optimal size. Freakishly large lips trigger weaker visual pleasure than average lips.
The ideal waist-to-hip ratio is 0.7. Women without narrow waists may be pregnant. Women without wide hips may be sexually immature. The waist-to-hip ratio is explored indepth by Devendra Singh in Adaptive Significance of Female Physical Attractiveness: Role of Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology).
Ideal appendages are not muscular, chubby or thin. Muscularity indicates masculinity. Chubbiness indicates sexual immaturity. Thinness indicates illness or malnourishment.
Ideal voice has a pitch and resonance midway between men and children.
Ideal height for a woman is 8% shorter than a man, which is approximately 6 inches. More than 6 inches shorter indicates sexual immaturity. Less than 6 inches shorter indicates masculinity. Average women are more attractive than tiny or tall women.
Ideal face is hairless, symmetrical, blemish-free and taut. Bearded faces indicate masculinity. Asymmetric faces indicate genetic defects. Blemished faces indicate illness. Sagging faces indicate post-menopausal.
Ideal hair is shiny, thick and not grey. Dull or thin hair indicates illness or malnourishment. Grey hair indicates post-menopausal.
Ideal breasts are large and do not sag. Breasts have an optimal size. Freakishly large breasts trigger weaker visual pleasure than average breasts. Sagging influences visual pleasure more than size. Small, non-sagging breasts trigger stronger visual pleasure than large, sagging breasts. Sagging indicates post-menopausal.
Ideal lips are more plump than men’s and children’s. Like breasts, lips have an optimal size. Freakishly large lips trigger weaker visual pleasure than average lips.
The ideal waist-to-hip ratio is 0.7. Women without narrow waists may be pregnant. Women without wide hips may be sexually immature. The waist-to-hip ratio is explored indepth by Devendra Singh in Adaptive Significance of Female Physical Attractiveness: Role of Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology).
Ideal appendages are not muscular, chubby or thin. Muscularity indicates masculinity. Chubbiness indicates sexual immaturity. Thinness indicates illness or malnourishment.
Ideal voice has a pitch and resonance midway between men and children.
Ideal height for a woman is 8% shorter than a man, which is approximately 6 inches. More than 6 inches shorter indicates sexual immaturity. Less than 6 inches shorter indicates masculinity. Average women are more attractive than tiny or tall women.
Ideal face is hairless, symmetrical, blemish-free and taut. Bearded faces indicate masculinity. Asymmetric faces indicate genetic defects. Blemished faces indicate illness. Sagging faces indicate post-menopausal.
Ideal hair is shiny, thick and not grey. Dull or thin hair indicates illness or malnourishment. Grey hair indicates post-menopausal.
Visual/audible pleasure also varies with a woman’s novelty. The more novel a woman appears or sounds to a man, the stronger the positive effect. Women frequently change their appearance to maximize their novelty. Women often seem more attractive to men when they have a foreign accent.
Men preferred blondes because they were novel. Thanks to hair coloring, blonde hair has lost its novelty. Consequently, more women are dying their hair red to be novel.
Men preferred blondes because they were novel. Thanks to hair coloring, blonde hair has lost its novelty. Consequently, more women are dying their hair red to be novel.
Women become less attractive to men. As a woman becomes less novel to a man, she triggers weaker visual/audible pleasure. Even the most beautiful women become increasingly less attractive to a man. The husbands of supermodels cheat on their wives as much as other men do.
Both sexes become less attractive to each other. Shortly after the start of courtship, a woman begins triggering increasingly weaker visual/audible pleasure in a man. After 8 months of courtship, a man no longer triggers infatuation in a woman.
The preference for novelty encourages men to prefer new women, which increases the genetic diversity of their offspring.
Beards
Beards evolved to stop men courting men. Beards evolved during our aquatic detour, when our heads were the only body part routinely visible above water. The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, by Elaine Morgan, explores our aquatic detour indepth.
Erect Penis
Visual pleasure is also triggered by the sight of an erect penis. Men feel visual pleasure when they see another man’s erect penis.
Men prefer pornography that shows an erect penis. The vast majority of heterosexual pornographic movies include men with erect penises, not just naked women. The most important scenes are the cum shots which feature a close-up of an erect penis.
The triggering of visual pleasure by the sight of an erect penis would have been helpful during multi-male mating. Multi-male mating is multiple males mating with the same female within hours of each other. Males in primate species that use multi-male mating also feel visual pleasure when they see an erect penis. It causes them to develop an erection, which prepares them to mate when the opportunity arises.
The triggering of visual pleasure by the sight of an erect penis has probably led men to mistakenly believe they are homosexual.
Both sexes become less attractive to each other. Shortly after the start of courtship, a woman begins triggering increasingly weaker visual/audible pleasure in a man. After 8 months of courtship, a man no longer triggers infatuation in a woman.
The preference for novelty encourages men to prefer new women, which increases the genetic diversity of their offspring.
Beards
Beards evolved to stop men courting men. Beards evolved during our aquatic detour, when our heads were the only body part routinely visible above water. The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, by Elaine Morgan, explores our aquatic detour indepth.
Erect Penis
Visual pleasure is also triggered by the sight of an erect penis. Men feel visual pleasure when they see another man’s erect penis.
Men prefer pornography that shows an erect penis. The vast majority of heterosexual pornographic movies include men with erect penises, not just naked women. The most important scenes are the cum shots which feature a close-up of an erect penis.
The triggering of visual pleasure by the sight of an erect penis would have been helpful during multi-male mating. Multi-male mating is multiple males mating with the same female within hours of each other. Males in primate species that use multi-male mating also feel visual pleasure when they see an erect penis. It causes them to develop an erection, which prepares them to mate when the opportunity arises.
The triggering of visual pleasure by the sight of an erect penis has probably led men to mistakenly believe they are homosexual.
Happiness Dissected is a more practical version of The Origin of Emotions.