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Attractiveness Bonus Factor

So, for a long time i've had this thing that i have just given a name. i call it the attractiveness bonus factor, or <i>ABF</i>. Simply explained it is an additive factor that can be applied to the attractiveness of any person in exclusion of normal things such as personality and physical beauty.

I guess a sort of obvious example that most people can relate to to at least some extent would be that of a musical performer. I could not tell you the number of times that i have been in a bar watching some live performance on stage and thinking that the lead singer sure was oogly. And then some friend or another would mention to me how hot for them they were. Obviously they were applying there own personal <i>ABF</i> for musicians and all of a sudden they are attractive. Often to the level where they reach an appreciable drool point <i>DP</i>.

That's also an important feature of <i>ABF</i>. The very subjectivity of it. Not everyone finds the same things produce the same levels. For example, some people are totally hot for drummers, others, lead singers. Probably the musician that i find the most attractive is a woman violinist. I am not sure why. We're all different, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc, etc, etc.

Now, you may think that i am sucking all the romance out of the notion of personal beauty and perhaps i am. You might also think that i have reduced something wonderful to a science. And indeed, i have actually associated percentages with my <i>ABF</i>'s. However, since i have no other numbers or criteria it doesn't mean all that much. The first <i>ABF</i> that i ever attributed, one i discovered in high school, in grade 11, when the girl with the locker next to mine, pretty enough, drove me wild when she first got glasses. All of a sudden i found her to be head over heals beautiful. Through time i have worked out that a person who wears glasses (with the notable exception of certain horrid types) is automatically 15% more attractive to me. Or an <i>ABF</i> of 15.
I get reminders of how true this is all the time. Just recently at work there was a woman who has always kind of scared me. Personality, physically, just about every way. Not ugly exactly but definitely not attractive to me, kind of scary. Well one day she didn't wear her contacts and boom, i found myself, without thinking about it, wondering why she looked so good all of a sudden. It actually took me a few minutes to even notice that she was wearing glasses.

Glasses are my big one at an <i>ABF</i> of 15. There are others. Pigtails and Ponytails are both an <i>ABF</i> of 5. Different forms of musician, singers, artists, run the gambit from <i>ABF</i> 10 through <i>ABF</i> 30. All of these relate to women. Although there are a number of men out there that i find attractive, they are significantly more rare then women, to the point that i don't even know what it is going to take for me to find a man attractive. I certainly have not found any <i>ABF</i>'s for them yet.

Anyways, the point of all this was that i noticed today, for the first time, that i have another. Women at art galleries. Simply women that i see while we are both wandering around an art gallery. They are more attractive then if i saw them on the street. I guess this one is at least partially related to it saying something about them on a personal level. So anyways, women in art galleries, <i>ABF</i> 10. I did note that there was no connection with men for me. Also, given that it seems to relate to personality, i don't know that the same <i>ABF</i> would relate to a friend with me at a gallery, although i have noted that the glasses <i>ABF</i> totally does work on friend and foe alike.

Given how subjective and personal these things are, i am quite curious as to what <i>ABF</i>'s others might have. Please feel free to let me know.