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12 Jul 2009 07:55 pm
Pogonophilia: Busted
Cris Saknussemm has spent twenty years studying fetishes and lists his ten most favorite ones. This is relevant to the Dish:
Pogonophilia — The fixation on bearded men. Once, interviewing a woman with this fetish, I showed her four pictures
of naked men: a well-endowed eighteen-year-old model, an extremely thin
bearded man in his early thirties, a heavily muscled former
professional athlete in his late forties, and Peter North, the porn
star. Asked to choose the most "virile and masculine" of the group, she
selected the bearded man instantly. What I didn't tell her was that the
bearded man had terminal cancer and was quite seriously ill. Her
selection directly defies the view that our choices of "attractiveness"
are driven by an instinctual appraisal of health and reproductive
capacity. When I presented a Photoshop-modified picture of the man
without his beard, she no longer recognized him. In fact, she was
repelled.
It's Bear Week in Ptown!
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