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Sexual attraction is one our basest desires, an animal instinct, an outdated vestige of our genetic programming. This is what we are taught by most modern theorists on human sexual behaviour. They are all wrong.
Human beings have no undeniable or infallible instincts; if we feel an urge we can choose not to act on it. We are not unintelligent animals, in fact, we conceptualize to such a degree that we've developed language to keep track of all our ideas. The content of our minds is not determined by our genes, but by our selves.
Sex is actually one of our highest, most sophisticated desires - it is a unique product of the unique human mind - it is reproduction taken to a new level, one involving love, romance, invention, elaborate ritual and advanced forms of play. Animals do not date; they do not give diamond rings; they do not lie in bed all day talking to each other and making love, they do not dress provocatively or spend hours doing their hair, and they do not fantasize.
Those who claim that the mind is the sexiest body part are not wrong, but no one has ever guessed that without their minds men would not want sex with women at all. Most men in western cultures are attracted to women, but only because they have been taught or have learned on their own to admire them. Not all men do. In many middle eastern cultures homosexuality is the norm, and men have sex with women only to procreate. Men have no built-in desire to have sex with women but must at some point decide to be attracted to them. Men must weigh everything they know and decide that women alone are deserving of sexual attention. How else can one explain the sexual proclivities of certain shepherds?
The mind again becomes indespensible when men want to determine which women are worthy of their affections. Men are sexually attracted to women only when these women embody their deepest values: convictions arrived at through years of learning and careful introspection. For a long time I was the only one saying so; the media seemed bent perpetuating belief in the shallowness of sexual attraction. But now a few others are expressing my views as well, even if inadvertently.
Take for example the latest batch of GAP commercials which rather than embue gorgeous models with thoughtful personalities, feature thoughtful, talented, and famous females being simply beautiful. Or take the television promos for the new fall series called Supermodels which takes an unprecedentedly intellectual approach to the model search. These spots feature young beautiful girls seriously asking themselves questions like "Do clothes makes me beautiful or are they merely a relection of who I am, what I'm feeling at the moment...Do clothes make me beautiful, or is it me? I'd like to know."
Then there's the poster above on sale at AllPosters.com and probably in the record section of your local department store as well. Its male creators are trying to be as shallow and sexist as possible as regards male sexual attraction to women. The media tells us this is 'cool'. But this is what makes it so revealing. Even though these guys are trying to be as crass as possible, they still manage to admit that a woman's character is just as important to them as her physical beauty. Read it yourself and see. Like most men in civilized societies, not only do they desire women who are beautiful, sexy and voluptuous; these men also want a woman who is smart, honest and independent. Never mind the impertinent but honest punchline at the end; it's no secret that men like women who feed them and don't nag. But it may come as a revelation to some that men care just as much whether or not a woman is sincere, nice or funny.
Hopefully one day the whole world will see that human sexual desire is made possible only by our noblest urges, by our vaunted ability to achieve the highest possible character.
