qaz posted at 8:12AM Tue, 25 June 2019 - #4354503

An on line dating company did a study to show that men have a very high degree of agreement on what they consider attractive. If I dont think a woman is attractive, I can be pretty sure most other men will share my opinion. That's what the studies show. Google is your friend.

The studies you reference are extremely limited and flawed.

Years back, there were a couple of much-hyped studies that found that there was a universal ideal of beauty, that men found attractive. In particular, it found a particular ratio of bust to waist to hips was preferred over decades, even though the weight of the ideal woman changed drastically.

But when you looked closer, there were serious issues. One study used Playboy centerfolds. The other asked male American college students to pick the most attractive figure. Both Playbay readers and US college students tend to be white males, better off than average. This sample was not even typical of the U.S., let alone the world.

Further studies found that different ethnic groups and different countries do in fact have differing standards of beauty.

Apparently, your ideal is northern European. Which is fine...but do you really believe that men in Asia and Africa are sadly settling for ugly women, since Ulrikas are few and far between there? Or could it be that people in other countries look different precisely because the standards of beauty differ there?

See here for a concrete example of how beauty standards differ. It's one woman, Photoshopped to be beautiful in 18 different countries.

Victoria 4 is not particularly attractive out of the box. What made her popular was the huge amount of support she had, which made it possible to make her look the way individual users wanted her to look.