How to be a “Sexy” geek
If you have recruited as many geeks as I have, you may get the humor of this article I found…
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We’ll lead off our dissection of the mating game by describing to be sexy. This is a topic many hackers can use serious help with…
The sad truth (which many of you have no doubt already discovered) is that your bulging, tumescent hacker forebrain is just not going to turn on very many women by itself. Okay, you might get lucky and trip over one of the one or two percent of exceptions. But if you bet your sex life on hitting that jackpot you are going to spend an awful lot of Saturday nights alone.
[Comment from a geekgirl here? "Brains do turn some of us on, but..."]
Most women have broader criteria. As do most men; after all, a lot of us Y-chromosome types are notorious for being more immediately interested in a woman’s cup size than her IQ. In order to understand why both sexes have the physical and behavioral turn-ons that they do, we need to take a look at the evolutionary biology of human mating.
While human beings often have sex for pleasure, the instincts that drive human mating behavior have been shaped by a deadly serious game of evolutionary selection. Sexually attractive people are those whose characteristics suggest they are well equipped to help you propagate your genetic line successfully. Good looks are sexy because they correlate with health and a robust immune system; wealth and status are sexy because they signal ability to sink high levels of investment into offspring, increasing their chances of surviving to reproduce.
Men’s turn-ons average a bit more physical than womens’ because women have a higher energy and risk investment in reproduction (childbirth was quite dangerous in pre-modern conditions); therefore, health and beauty have been stronger predictors of reproductive success in women than they are in men. But women are hardly immune to a handsome face and firm muscles — in fact a good many hackers probably wish women were much less susceptible to these things.
Cathy observes: “You don’t need to look like a male model to be `sexy’ in the physical department. Even a single good feature can make you attractive enough to be a sexual success.”
To be sexy, hackers need to learn how to emit fitness-to-reproduce signals. That much is easy; what’s harder is to understand which signals are more or less under your control and how to amplify them.
READ: How To Be Sexy
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