Why are We so Drawn to Women's Breasts and Buttocks?

[Gustaf]

Because we were socialized that way.

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Evolutionary psychology bulls**t is bulls**t.

I don't often agree with FallenMorgan, but he's bang on the money here.

This notion seems to depend on either 1 out of 2 claims being correct:

1. That there exist many cultures where these features are ignored.
2. That all cultures have reached this by coincidence.

I don't think 1 is true (although cultures do have emphases that vary in strength I do believe these features are important all over the world) and 2 seems unreasonable. I generally doubt all aspects of sexual attraction could be non-genetic, but that's just my hunch.

[Gustaf]

I'd say cultural ('socialized') valuation is always attached to a real difference in the physical world. It's quite analogous to the difference between gender and sex.

Also, socialization could very well be universal, after all the difference between male and female (or masculine and feminine, if you want) is very much cross-cultural.

But if a socialization is genetically determined is it really correct to term it social?