Quote Originally Posted by stormcrow View Post
I am aware that beauty is subjective, I personally find an intelligent, articulate girl to be more desirable than a girl who resembles a barbie doll. But on the other hand I think most people KNOW an attractive face from an unattractive one so it is possible that beauty is objective. No one watches the sunrise with a feeling of disgust, I think most people can recognize the beauty in that. But I guess that is getting of topic since beauty in general is not the same as physical attractiveness but oh well.
I guess it depends what 'objective' means. I bet there is at least one person in the world who genuinely finds sunrises repulsive. Does objective mean that it's true independent of what anyone thinks, or that it's true for almost every person? Now that I write it out, it's obviously the latter. I've read about the study too. There are obviously certain characteristics (and usually those characteristics fall under the category of 'normal') that the human brain is programmed to find attractive. It applies to all humans, except for maybe some few people whose brains have developed abnormally for whatever reason.