Earthling wrote:
I have come up with an essay. But I'll compress it for readability's sake.
2 things seem like the most important properties of an attractive quality
1) creates pleasure (in whatever way, sexual is usually important)
2) reinforces bonding (in whatever way, intimacy & acceptance usually important)
If these are the most important properties (I'm having the audacity to prooflessly claim that they are, mind you), then
Raleigh wrote:
2) Independent thinker.
3) Self-controlled.
4) Takes teasing well.
that would make these rather meh.
Humor is pretty good though.
Everyone: If you can find reason to disagree with me, pls do so and especially challenge my view on what makes a quality attractive.
When I'm attracted to someone, it's because I get the sense of something in them that is more than them, and I am drawn to that.
They have the draw of a puzzle I want to solve but that is unsolvable, but that doesn't matter because the pleasure, the
jouissance, is in the puzzle, not the solution.
I suspect for me, an attractive quality is something I generically like that I can 'hang' the attraction on, in an attempt to make it tangible, to answer the troubling query of 'what do you like about me?'.
That said, there is something in the idea of strength of character.
Or perhaps, as Neil Finn sings: 'colour is its own reward'.
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Of course, it's probably quite a bit more complicated than that.
You know sometimes, between the dames and the horses, I don't even know why I put my hat on.