According to Henry Finck’s opinion, there is substantial evidence that cultural evolution and sexual selection throughout history favored the petite body type of a woman’s beauty (Henry Finck, 1887/2019, p. 518). The Distinctive Body of the Amazons in Ancient Greece Many ancient […]
Aphrodisiacs are substances and foods that heighten erotic arousal, sexual attraction, and pleasure in love and sexual relations. Aphrodisiacs can enhance the sensual pleasure that both men and women get from their sexual relationships. The term “aphrodisiacs” comes from the name of […]
Men and women have used aphrodisiacs to increase erotic attraction, arousal, and sexual pleasure in love affairs for many centuries and in many different cultures around the world. What Aphrodisiacs Are and What They Do for Love Aphrodisiacs are foods and substances […]
Many scholars and laypeople consider sex, sexual love, and erotic love as synonyms. Yet it is not exactly correct to equate these concepts. Why so? Because they mean different things, and researchers should distinguish between them (Karandashev, 2022). Yes, sexual love is […]
What is love? What is sex? What is sexual love? And what is erotic love? For love studies to be truly scientific, there are a lot of scholarly questions that need to be answered. As I noted in another article, love and […]
Africa is one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. For centuries, people from many different cultures have lived side by side in close proximity, still maintaining their cultural values, beliefs, norms, and practices. The differences occur not only between […]
Many men and women expect to get into mating or sexual relationships with partners who are “physically attractive,” “looking good enough,” or at least “not bad looking.” Many cultures recognize the cultural significance of women’s feminine beauty to men. Nevertheless, the masculine […]
Many people in the world are obsessed with the desire to be or look beautiful. The ideas of beauty and physical attractiveness have been persistent in art, sculpture, poetry, and songs throughout centuries of human civilizations. In recent times, books, magazines, movies, […]
Multisensory perception is important for interpersonal attraction and love. And women and men who are physically attractive may appear differently in different cultures. Men and women not only look at their partners with admiration but also come closer, speak, sing, dance, touch […]
We like to talk to and have a relationship with beautiful and physically attractive men and women. Their physical attractiveness is pleasant for interpersonal communication. What is their personality like? Do pleasant or unpleasant personality traits predispose us to perceive men and […]