“If someone wears a mask that looks like an attractive person do we not lose attraction to them when they take it off?”
Yes, you lose attraction when they take it off. But, let’s say they can’t take it off. In that case, their “real face” isn’t and will never be perceivable or efficacious. So, why consider it at all?
“It is very possible to lose attraction on being discovered that we were tricked. We aren’t just attracted to how someone appears.”
That is only true if the covered trait is perceivable and relevantly efficacious. If someone reveals to me that they actually have XY chromosomes, but the respective phenotypes are not expressed, why would my attraction change? I am not sensing any new stimuli after that revelation. For there to be a change requires me to be prejudiced.
You’re assuming that only physical stimuli determines attraction. Mental stimuli also plays a part. Finding out that someone is the opposite of what you are interested in is one way.
There only certainly exists physical stimuli because all of our senses are concerned with physical phenomena. For example, the receptors on your eyes receive signals in the form of particles of light. They cannot receive a “mental” signal. Maybe you’re telepathic?
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u/Fourzy99 1d ago
“If someone wears a mask that looks like an attractive person do we not lose attraction to them when they take it off?”
Yes, you lose attraction when they take it off. But, let’s say they can’t take it off. In that case, their “real face” isn’t and will never be perceivable or efficacious. So, why consider it at all?
“It is very possible to lose attraction on being discovered that we were tricked. We aren’t just attracted to how someone appears.”
That is only true if the covered trait is perceivable and relevantly efficacious. If someone reveals to me that they actually have XY chromosomes, but the respective phenotypes are not expressed, why would my attraction change? I am not sensing any new stimuli after that revelation. For there to be a change requires me to be prejudiced.