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by SketchySeaBeast 2694 days ago
> People who are sick are less attractive to the opposite sex, this is a deeply-rooted evolutionary trait.

My argument is that "evolutionary attraction" isn't actually a phenomena. Our interests have swung wildly from valuing huge to tiny and from pale to tan all due to cultural shifts, not because of an innate inbuilt evolutionary mechanism - there was no filtering of genes due to these features. Heroin chic was a thing, and that's downright sickly.