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The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133
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The Rise of Female Teacher Sex Scandals
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Rob Henderson builds on Louise Perry's Spectator piece about OnlyFans as a supernormal stimulus for women (thousands of men praising you simultaneously), applying the same logic to female teacher scandals. When an attractive 25-year-old woman undresses before an experienced 28-year-old man, the response is pleasant but muted. When she does so before a 16-year-old encountering a mature woman for the first time, the intensity of his reaction — that specific look — is something no adult male encounter can replicate. Henderson is careful to note male teachers still commit these transgressions far more frequently; female scandals go viral precisely because they're anomalous. Chris Williamson connects this to his own reading of Freida McFadden's thriller 'The Teacher', whose twist forces the reader to confront their asymmetric moral reactions to the same act committed by different genders.
Rob Henderson proposed that some female teachers who sleep with male students are motivated not primarily by sex, but by the uniquely intense sexual attention an adolescent boy — encountering a fully mature woman for the first time — provides. It's a supernormal stimulus that no adult male can replicate.
In David Puts' study, male formidability — rated by other men — predicted how many sexual partners a man had over the next 18 months. Women's attractiveness ratings of those same men had zero predictive power. Looksmaxers may have accidentally optimised for the right variable.
In David Puts' study, how formidable men appeared to other men predicted their partner count over 18 months; women's attractiveness ratings of those same men had zero predictive power.
