A colleague of mine made some really ridiculous statements and we dismissed him as a retard, but he did have some points worth pondering about. It all started off on my hair, and why I am not planning to cut it.
We then talked about the natural ornaments of animals like the hair around the lion’s face, or the peacock feathers, or the colorful display of the parakeets etc. so what do we have for humans? His point was that hair is an ornament, a means of attracting a sexual partner, like it is in case of animals. But we constantly cut it trim it and even shave it. In fact a recent survey indicates that most women find body hair in a man to be a turn off. But why? Isnt it something that nature has given us. It is supposed to be a secondary sexual organ. Then why is it a turn off?
Is our cultural preconditioning retarding our natural instincts? Why do we have to use perfumes/deos to attract the opposite sex? Are our pheromones that weak? Have we incapacitated our body from performing the functions of attracting a mate for procreation of the species? If not, then why rely on so many means of doing the same through cosmetics and fashion.
In fact the concept of fashion changes with time and geography of places. A symbol of beauty in one place at one time may be an object of ridicule and embarrassment at another place in another time. That being the case, why are we so ephemeral in sensing the stimuli and responding to it? Why has our acquired sense of what is attractive, transient as it may be, replaced the biological instinct of what should be attractive in the opposite sex?
Would appreciate your comments.
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