But would he take a woman with all those qualities AND is fairer in skin color ?
no one can have it all.....
I see you are the typical fair and lovely addict
Would he reject all those qualities and dark skin - unless he is obsessed with fairness?
All things kept constant, a fairer skin tone is more attractive to all humans.
ok if you are reporting based on this please read the whole article which was published in 2008...I sure do hope the world has moved on forward!
Why men prefer fair-skinned maidens and women like dark, handsome strangers
By ANDY DOLAN
Last updated at 01:03 17 March 2008
Gentlemen do not just prefer blondes, but lighter-skinned women in general, a study has suggested.
Scientists looking into attractiveness in men and woman suggest that
men from all races find fairer-skinned woman most alluring, while women are the polar opposite and favour darker, brooding men.
They said the attraction is driven by preferences
based on moral assumptions.
Men are
subconsciously attracted to fairer-skinned icons such as Nicole Kidman or Kylie Minogue because o
f the skin tone's association with innocence, purity, modesty, virginity, vulnerability and goodness.
Women, on the other hand, pick men with darker complexions - such as film stars Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell or Jamie Foxx - because these are associated with sex, virility, mystery, villainy and danger.
The latter two actors were paired together in the recent Miami Vice movie, which topped the box office on both sides of the Atlantic despite lukewarm reviews.
Academics at the University of Toronto in Canada say their study proves the fair maiden of myth has a basis in scientific reality.
They
studied more than 2,000 advertising photographs - chosen on the
basis the models featured were considered among the most attractive people of the races and sexes - and found that the skin of white women was 15.2 per cent lighter than the skin of white males, and the skin of black women 11.1 per cent lighter than the skin of black men.
Dr Shyon Baumann, a
sociologist involved in the study, said: "What the research shows is that our
aesthetic preferences operate to reflect moral preferences.
"Within
our cultures we have a
set of ideals about how women
should look and behave.
"
Lightness and darkness have particular meanings attached to them and we subconsciously relate those moral preferences to women."
In effect, men drawn to
darker looking women - such as actress Monica Bellucci over rival Michelle Pfieffer -
are expressing a preference for danger.
Dr Baumann said this
appreciation of a darker complexion in women is "less common" but "appears to coexist with a view of such women as more overtly sexual.
"In other words,
darker women are seen as more promiscuous."
Fair point: Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman are typical examples of light-skinned beauties
When the researchers
analysed adverts featuring white women only,
they found that women with the darkest complexions were more likely to be in an advanced state of undress.
They were also
more likely to have a bared midriff or provocatively dressed, and only they were shown with bared feet or are
implied to be totally nude.
Women with the
lightest complexion were more likely to be conservatively dressed and portrayed as friendly, happy and honest.
Dr Baumann said the scale of the differences between male and female skin colour selected for their attractiveness is too big to be explained by pure biology and were the product of
"deeply rooted and enduring cultural values".
He said: "Physical lightness and darkness are aesthetic characteristics that ...
exemplify the link between aesthetic and moral judgements.
"
On average,
fair complexions in women are the dominant aesthetic ideal because
sexual modesty and
conventional femininity are the dominant behavioural ideal for women."
But there remain plenty of examples to confound Dr Baumann's theory, including fair-skinned actor Daniel Craig.
Women were left drooling over shots of him in his swimming shorts during Craig's debut turn as James Bond in Casino Royale.
Two years ago, research from St Andrews University in Fife found man's attraction to blondes could date back to the caveman era.
Researchers said
a rare mutation of light-coloured hair heralded the arrival of the blue-eyed blonde 10,000 years ago.
Until then, humans, who originated in Africa, tended to have dark hair and eyes, so
blondes stood out from their brunette sisters.
Anthropologist Peter Frost said: "When an individual is faced with potential mates of equal value, it will tend to
select the one that stands out from the crowd.
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Basically it implies a few things:
1) Advertisements also put some idea in ones mind
2) people's "moral selection" is governed by the media (
aesthetic and moral judgements.)
3) People are attracted to what stands out....
4) Cavemen habits havent left us!
Yeah maybe...
I saw this video of an experiment where they would like put needles into people's hands
As it turns out when the needle pierced a white hand the observers felt far more empathy as compared to when it pierced a blackish hand
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Anyways here is Iraj Manzoor she was once Pakistan's top most model and perhaps the one with the most dusky skin tone
She is dark but she has stunning beauty (in my opinion)
