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Abstract
A little historical context
First, body.
Second, mental.
Third, the face.
While face is the most imporant out of anything the human body encompasses, I intentionally left it to be the last of the three, because ot already reflects basically everything about the other two. It tells everything about your physical condition:
Summary
Throughout the years of being on PSL, I have read numerous threads about what makes a man attractive - some of it were really thought provoking, others less so, while others were just empirically not correct and reflected a personal bias from the poster's own life. Long story short, I was not satisfied with how logically inconsistent some ot the claims were, so hereby I propose a logical framework, from which attractiveness can be judged. In my mind, the closer a man is to being a perfect hunter genetically, the better he will fare in the walks of life, be it romantically, in his career or socially.
A little historical context
To understand where I will be coming from further down, first let's talk a bit about the traditional way humans lived versus how patriarchy affected the socieites throughout the world until very recently, when the sexual liberation of women started to bring humanity back to it's archaic roots at a societal level. With the start of the agriculture in ancient times, humans started to eat food for cheap calories which they haver never eaten before - plants, more specifically grains, legumes and vegetables. With possessions becoming inheritable, the instituion of marriage was created, hence the provider role of men emerged; this replaced men's previous duty: being outside in the wilderness during the day with their male peers, in order to hunt for animals which can be brought back to their family, where the women were ready to prepare the fresh game. Patriarchy, through the creation of organized religions, have kept female sexuality at bay until very recently - this allowed men to gain the ability to mate by following a meritocratic logic. Institutions and laws like paying dowry to her dad or punishing adultery has ensured that ultimately men that contributed toward the community reproduced, while rogue ones mostly not. Fast forward into 2024, patriarchy is dead in the West, hence the chains on female sexuality are broken, which means they now get to choose again the men they always found physically attractive - the ones that resemble the archaic hunter the most.
Being a genetically good hunter has many contributing attributes, which encompasse both physical and mental characteristics. To make it articulate, I will break these into three parts:
Being a genetically good hunter has many contributing attributes, which encompasse both physical and mental characteristics. To make it articulate, I will break these into three parts:
- Body
- Mental
- Face
First, body.
The female body at it's core is rather simple to describe - from head to toe it is specialized to give birth and raise the children until puberty kicks in; in contrast, the male body is like a Swiss knife - it is equipped outrun preys, fight animals & other men, conquer the wildneress through muscle power / agility / endurance, build and to to destroy. These can be categorized into two general functions: mobility and fighting.
Mobility involves running both sprints and distance, jumping, swimming etc. - mostly things that you would find in the agenda of an athletics competition; which already explains which is the most desirable body type for women: the one that of a classical athlete. Some key characteristics contributing to being a good athlete are:
Mobility involves running both sprints and distance, jumping, swimming etc. - mostly things that you would find in the agenda of an athletics competition; which already explains which is the most desirable body type for women: the one that of a classical athlete. Some key characteristics contributing to being a good athlete are:
- Being lean, above all - every single gram of excess fat is a handicap to your mobility.
- Wide shoulders combined with a narrow waist - the torque this combination generates is crucial both for running and throwing things
- Muscle insertions - they imply potential power output, e.g. in the case of calves and sprinting
The most attractive male physiques (involving solo mobility sports) belong to sprinters - look for those short-distance athletes who compete in the 100m, 200m and 400m races. Noticeable mentions are javelin throwers, long jumpers and in some cases, olympic swimmers too.
Fighting in nature can occur against a beast or against a rival man, as part of the mating competition. Some physical traits that contribute to a higher fighting success:
Fighting in nature can occur against a beast or against a rival man, as part of the mating competition. Some physical traits that contribute to a higher fighting success:
- Skeletal size (stature) - most importantly, being simply bigger than the other man already gives you the upperhand in the fight
- Reach / limb length - having longer extremities grants your punches and kicks an opportunity to reach the opponent before he can do anything against it
- Wrist size - robust wrists are a prerequisite for strong punching power and are a strong indicative of your skeleton's overall robustness
- High proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers - like with sprinting, posessing overwhelmingly these type of slow-twitch fibers gives you an explosive & power output advantage
For the male physiques with the highest fighting success, look for the competitors in the most potent combat sports: boxing, thai boxing, kick boxing, wrestling.
The ideal male physique hence is one that either excels in either one of these two, or makes a powerful compromise between them. Now professional sportsmen choose their distinct sports based on their body's genetical predispositon and then excel in that one sport. Just like them, we too are all born with different bodies, which may give us advantages or disadvantages in different disciplines. In general, however if you want an ideal, archaic hunter phyique that women find the most appealing, you should choose sports from power athletics and fighting sports mostly - feel free to mix them up: as I said in the beginning, the male body is supposed to be like a Swiss knive. Combining sprinting with boxing for example is a fantastic combination. But you also need contitioning, else you won't have the necessary muscles to do these - which brings us to the next point, weightlifting.
Weightlifting in the gym is a modern shortcut for muscular hypertrophy and should be treated as such, it is streamlined to stimulate progressive overload in a controlled environment - it is anything, but archaic. Training in the gym has become necessary as most of us live otherwise sedentary lifestyles - but always treat it as not an end goal on itself but as a road to athleticism.
We cannot go further without mentioning the female vs the male gaze at this point. The previous paragraphs about general athleticism broadly speaking encompassed what the overwhelming majority of healthy women find attractive in a man - hence the term, female gaze. If we went back in time a century ago, this whole paragraph would have been pointless to write as the female & male idea of male attractiveness would have been convergent. With the advent of anabolic steroids in the 20th century however, this has changed. Deeply rooted in homosexuality, first anabolic steroids, then later subtances like - human growth hormone - gave rise to a divergence in the female & male perception of the ideal male physique. Women's biology- obviously - didn't change in under a century, so at this day of age in 2024, they find the same athletic, hunter bodies the most attractive as they found in prehistoric times. Big bulging physiques from steroid abuse give women the ick; if you goal is not to be celebrated by the homosexual community, then stick to being natural and concentrate on being as lean as possible, while building muscle defitions that helps you being athletic.
The ideal male physique hence is one that either excels in either one of these two, or makes a powerful compromise between them. Now professional sportsmen choose their distinct sports based on their body's genetical predispositon and then excel in that one sport. Just like them, we too are all born with different bodies, which may give us advantages or disadvantages in different disciplines. In general, however if you want an ideal, archaic hunter phyique that women find the most appealing, you should choose sports from power athletics and fighting sports mostly - feel free to mix them up: as I said in the beginning, the male body is supposed to be like a Swiss knive. Combining sprinting with boxing for example is a fantastic combination. But you also need contitioning, else you won't have the necessary muscles to do these - which brings us to the next point, weightlifting.
Weightlifting in the gym is a modern shortcut for muscular hypertrophy and should be treated as such, it is streamlined to stimulate progressive overload in a controlled environment - it is anything, but archaic. Training in the gym has become necessary as most of us live otherwise sedentary lifestyles - but always treat it as not an end goal on itself but as a road to athleticism.
We cannot go further without mentioning the female vs the male gaze at this point. The previous paragraphs about general athleticism broadly speaking encompassed what the overwhelming majority of healthy women find attractive in a man - hence the term, female gaze. If we went back in time a century ago, this whole paragraph would have been pointless to write as the female & male idea of male attractiveness would have been convergent. With the advent of anabolic steroids in the 20th century however, this has changed. Deeply rooted in homosexuality, first anabolic steroids, then later subtances like - human growth hormone - gave rise to a divergence in the female & male perception of the ideal male physique. Women's biology- obviously - didn't change in under a century, so at this day of age in 2024, they find the same athletic, hunter bodies the most attractive as they found in prehistoric times. Big bulging physiques from steroid abuse give women the ick; if you goal is not to be celebrated by the homosexual community, then stick to being natural and concentrate on being as lean as possible, while building muscle defitions that helps you being athletic.
Second, mental.
In the previous section, I have written about what gives a man the necesarry physical base to be a succesful hunter. However, humanity has risen to be the apex predator of this planet because we possess something that other animals don't: our evolved brains allows us to effectively communicate and cooperate with each other, which makes a predatpr that all others fear in the wild. Alone, we are easily overpowered by many animals - even the world's fastest man is made a joke by just about any quadrupedal animal in a sprint; or like how a chimpanzee can rip a person's arm off due to the difference in our central nervous systems. We function best as a part of a tribe. Male & male bonding is more ad hoc than female & female, because the relationship between men ultimately boils down to being hunting mates. Men build connection with each other under struggle and hardship they go through with each other - a hunt. The friends you surround yourself with, your work colleagues, your teammates, they all represent a hunting group in an abstract sense; and just like the old archaic hunting days, contemporary male groups also always involve a hierarchy - even if it isn't written anywhere, there is always a leader, many followers, foot soldiers at the bottom.
A little throwback to sports - make no mistake, it's not a coincidence, that the most popular, most widely celebrated sports worlwide are team sports where athleticism is highly involved. The needed mobility showcases to women the sportmen's physical ability, while their team work shows their ability to cooperate. Football (association & American), basketball (NBA), rugby, cricket etc. are watched by billions of heavily involved fans worlwide because these sports all represent a modern, abstract way of hunting. The two competing teams of players in women's brains are two rival hunting groups - the genetically better one wins.
This is why being neurotypical and an extrovert are so crucial. By having the same general brain structure as the majority of people, the group has strong cohesion as everyone conforms to the social hierachy, follows the unwritten social rules, so that the group can accomplish the hunt (which in today's world might be a work / school project for example).
Women hate neurodivergent and otherwise atypical men because they represent a disruption in the group mechanics - for example a group of autists would make a terrible hunting gang as everyone would have difficulty in communication with each other and their divergent personalities would clash with each other, resulting in an unsucessful hunt.
A little throwback to sports - make no mistake, it's not a coincidence, that the most popular, most widely celebrated sports worlwide are team sports where athleticism is highly involved. The needed mobility showcases to women the sportmen's physical ability, while their team work shows their ability to cooperate. Football (association & American), basketball (NBA), rugby, cricket etc. are watched by billions of heavily involved fans worlwide because these sports all represent a modern, abstract way of hunting. The two competing teams of players in women's brains are two rival hunting groups - the genetically better one wins.
This is why being neurotypical and an extrovert are so crucial. By having the same general brain structure as the majority of people, the group has strong cohesion as everyone conforms to the social hierachy, follows the unwritten social rules, so that the group can accomplish the hunt (which in today's world might be a work / school project for example).
Women hate neurodivergent and otherwise atypical men because they represent a disruption in the group mechanics - for example a group of autists would make a terrible hunting gang as everyone would have difficulty in communication with each other and their divergent personalities would clash with each other, resulting in an unsucessful hunt.
Third, the face.
While face is the most imporant out of anything the human body encompasses, I intentionally left it to be the last of the three, because ot already reflects basically everything about the other two. It tells everything about your physical condition:
- Hollow cheeks with a chiseled, angular jawline signal that you are lean, meaning you excel in mobility
- Hunter eyes combined with compact eye sockets, a robust mandible, prominent browridge, wide neck etc. - all signs that you possess higher than average fighting chance
Likewise, your mental state is readable from your facial (micro)expressions - a woman is able to gauge within milliseconds just by taking a glance at your face whether you are neurotypical or neurodivergent, confident or an abused dog.
Face is the most important because as soon as humans have stopped hunting solitarity and gathered into hunting groups, the physical attributes no longer were the only determinants of hunting success. Ever since, looking at each other's face is used to quickly & efficiently create the hierarchy withing the hunting group, so the hunt (in modern terms the work, activity etc.) can begin. This is why ever since that point, not only the visible mobility and fighting success indicators of the face matter, but also it's perceived ability to socialize with other people. For example a person with gigantism might have fantastic fighting ability with their large, bony skull, but their face probably provokes much less trust in the eyes of another person, than if their face was more harmonious and refined. A male face might not have a high perceived fight success score, but it's symmetry signal overall healthiness & mobility - the case of prettyboys.
While both mobility and fighting success are useful traits for a hunter, the first is arguably lot more so. That's why empirically speaking, most women tend to favour a the lean, athletic figure with a harmonious face on top - prettyboys/men. The minority of women prefer a man with a build heavily built toward fighting success - ogres. Despite this, the male gaze usually glorifies the latter as seeing a big ogre in front of you is much more threating as a fighting opponent, than a man with a lean build but with and aesthetics face. Women care about fighting success if they themselves are in non-secure environments - this explains why prefering ogres over prettyboys is so much more common in lower social classes, than in higher circles.
Face is the most important because as soon as humans have stopped hunting solitarity and gathered into hunting groups, the physical attributes no longer were the only determinants of hunting success. Ever since, looking at each other's face is used to quickly & efficiently create the hierarchy withing the hunting group, so the hunt (in modern terms the work, activity etc.) can begin. This is why ever since that point, not only the visible mobility and fighting success indicators of the face matter, but also it's perceived ability to socialize with other people. For example a person with gigantism might have fantastic fighting ability with their large, bony skull, but their face probably provokes much less trust in the eyes of another person, than if their face was more harmonious and refined. A male face might not have a high perceived fight success score, but it's symmetry signal overall healthiness & mobility - the case of prettyboys.
While both mobility and fighting success are useful traits for a hunter, the first is arguably lot more so. That's why empirically speaking, most women tend to favour a the lean, athletic figure with a harmonious face on top - prettyboys/men. The minority of women prefer a man with a build heavily built toward fighting success - ogres. Despite this, the male gaze usually glorifies the latter as seeing a big ogre in front of you is much more threating as a fighting opponent, than a man with a lean build but with and aesthetics face. Women care about fighting success if they themselves are in non-secure environments - this explains why prefering ogres over prettyboys is so much more common in lower social classes, than in higher circles.
Summary
This post was meant to give a logical origin point for the discussion of male attractiveness. It is in no way complete, I tried to just touch as many relevant topics as possible to give you a framework. It also acts a guide to my posts, why I write what I write about aesthetics, this is the logical starting point from where I am trying to deduce today's society working mechanics.
