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Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study
An anonymous reader writes "Australian scientists are seeking volunteers online to help them better understand sexual attraction. At a specially created website — www.bodylab.biz — users can go online and make their own ratings of computer-generated avatar images of men and women of greatly varying shapes, sizes, and proportions. The bodyLab team will analyse and compile the results and each month will cull about half of the images — those that are least popular — and virtually 'breed' new body shapes from parent avatars with features rated as most attractive by people taking part in the experiment. Over time, the scientists hope thousands of users will help them work through six or more generations of avatars to narrow down the special combinations of features that make up the 'ideal' body — although they're keeping an open mind about whether several combinations will emerge."
"Now I'm gonna stick my thumb up this alligator's butt! Cricky! He's angry now!!
Is that the kind of sex we're talking about from Australia, 'cause if it is, there ain't nothing appealing about it at all...
Apple must be funding this to make new iPod ads.
You're probably fat. So put down that bag of sweets and get out of your chair and get some exercise. If you're fat, you're unattractive, no matter how many other endearing qualities you possess. Don't bitch that the rest of us are "picky". We're picky because we don't carry excess weight.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.