Poets have swooned over it since the invention of the written word; singers started crooning about it even before that time…. Love as we know it, however, remains an intangible feeling. No definitive method exists to calculate or predict to whom we will be attracted. For the most part, attraction remains an unsolved mystery–until in recent years. =)

DO you want to know WHY are we attracted to certain people? And why certain people are DEEMED to be ATTRACTIVE? How did Attraction occurs? Any tips for those in love?

Scientists tells us that “Judging beauty is looking at another person and figuring out whether you want your children to carry their genes” =) Mnm…It seems that the scientific properties of attraction can be explained by the simple will to produce viable offspring, also know as healthy kids…or can it?

Oone begins to wonder how, and on what level one can judge the fitness of another person. Certainly, a person smitten for the first time at a bar doesn’t ask for a genetic sequence and specifics about that special someone’s immune system before approaching him or her….=P

The scentists have also identified that some of that information is received and interpreted at a sub-conscious level. The study of attraction has so far identified two main ways in which fitness information can be encoded from one person to another: pheromones and body form.
Pheromones (chemically-secreted, odorless, airborne molecules) can trigger large sexual responses in animals. =P And much research has been done on this aspect…conclusion is humans do use pheromones as signals…we tend to be attracted to people with a more different genetic make-up than us, thus making the likelihood of creating a genetically diverse and healthy offspring.

Many scientists believe that body form, especially symmetry, conveys a sub-conscious message of fitness and initiates attraction.

Studies of symmetry in humans have also shown that men especially are more attracted to women with symmetrical features. (One hypothesis suggests that women are not as concerned with symmetry because instead of breeding, they look for a mate that can provide food and protection for their offspring, i.e., money and power for humans =P)

Besides symmetry, there are other subtle clues to fitness in the human body. Society has often propelled the “hour-glass figure” as a model for all women to strive for, and seemingly this obvious attracting trait has a biological basis.

Studies have shown that men are most attracted to women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7. The specific 0.7 ratio suggests a woman’s fitness and ability to bear children (younger girls lack the curves while older women tend to develop more fat around their waist)…and its over a range of weights…=P so it doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself to look like a twig in order to be deemed attractive..=P kekekeke

But of course we must always take into consideration the role of free will in attraction. I think that pheromones and body form probably only get the proverbial foot in the door; from there, the course of the relationship is controlled by many other factors, both conscious and sub-conscious.

But the question remains, why are we so fascinated with the science of attraction ( i know i am =P)? Perhaps we are tantalized by the idea of being able to quantify a previously mysterious subject. The idea of identifying love by free-floating molecules and symmetrical features is a radical, if not a scary, way of understanding one of the greatest human mysteries….Others may simply be looking for a date….=P