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- DigitalHippie73, on 04/27/2009, -0/+64Just goes to prove my point, only two kinds of guys aren't attracted to teenage girls. Gay guys and liars.
Granted, thinking it and acting on it are two completely different things. - maz2331, on 04/27/2009, -9/+58No, it just lowers inhibitions to the point that people don't care. You still know they are hideously ugly, but just stop caring about it.
Alcohol is a social lubricant. - Fhwqhgads, on 04/27/2009, -0/+44Mythbusters did this one.
Result was plausible. - mattyk123, on 04/27/2009, -2/+41Unfortunately yes, yes it does.
- zoodoo12, on 04/27/2009, -2/+33In my opinion, ugly people are always ugly no matter how you see them, but beer goggles make you care less.
- angelgabe, on 04/27/2009, -0/+27The girls are always prettier at closing time.
- aptanalogy, on 04/27/2009, -2/+28"There's no better place to ask such questions than in Britain, where the culture of alcohol and inappropriate sex is so ingrained that it is subjected to rigorous academic inquiry."
WOW, Time. Just, wow. - AtomicTheory, on 04/27/2009, -0/+24I was a bar for about 5 months, but it just wasn't for me, so I decided to turn back into a human.
- MothBoy, on 04/27/2009, -0/+23"The one condition under which drinkers preferred the 19-year-old faces was when they were wearing makeup, which has the effect of smoothing out wrinkles and granting a younger appearance — a finding won't come as a great surprise to any woman who has ever worn rouge."
They are ***** with us right? We like 19 year olds with makeup because it smooths out wrinkles? WTF? Are they talking about 19 year olds with 4 kids and a meth habit since they were 14? - inactive, on 04/27/2009, -0/+21Any port in a storm.
- thedcam, on 04/27/2009, -0/+20If you've been a bar for more than 10 minutes, yes, this HAS to be true.
- dnl2ba, on 04/27/2009, -1/+16FTA:
"For ethical and legal reasons, the photos were actually altered images of 17-year-old students from McMaster University in Ontario; they had given permission for their likenesses to be used. Researchers digitally manipulated the pictures to make the students' craniofacial features look like those of typical 15-year-olds or those of 19-year-olds."
Wait, what? How is this valid? Where's the objectivity in how they Photoshop girls to look younger or older? If they simply make the girls look less attractive when making them "older," and make them more attractive when making them "younger," then no wonder there's a preference for the "15-year-olds."
P.S.:
"Surprisingly, drinking had little impact on the results. Both drinkers and nondrinkers tended to favor the 15-year-old girls over the older ones, and when asked to estimate the younger girls' age, both groups of participants overestimated them to be just over 18 — or, just over the legal age for sex in the U.S." - thredden, on 04/27/2009, -0/+14as a bartender for 5 years, from my sober viewpoint, yes beer goggles do exist. I see guys night in and night out talk about a girl like she's a goddess. Now this girl isnt really attractive, but has enough glitter and other shiny things on her outfit and makeup that attracts these bar flies like a floodlight on your back porch.
- smileyface, on 04/27/2009, -1/+13I agree, the whole study sounds botched, biased, and ultimately invalid.
They also didn't mention whether the pictures were only the girls' faces or if they included their bodies as well (from the procedure, I'm guessing it was just faces). I don't know about other people, but I'm much more attracted to girls 19 than 15 based on the development of their bodies, and even more attracted to those in their early 20's (around my age). So I think focusing solely on faces introduces a significant bias by omission. Not to mention, like you said, the fact that they were altered and the "15-year-old" faces could have been made to look more attractive. - icebane, on 04/27/2009, -2/+12Beer consumption also affects beer attractiveness. I start the night with Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, and end with Bud Light :(.
- LevesqueFred, on 04/27/2009, -0/+9I thought this piece was about beer-goggling not the way that people tend to like underage teens... As is a fifteen year old is going to take a night out in the pubs/bars
- cplusplus, on 04/27/2009, -3/+12The very fact there are British people proves it. How else would they reproduce?!
- btraxx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+9She was a 10 at 2, and a 2 at 10.
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -0/+9No, it just gives me an excuse to sleep with fat chicks.
- dark2025, on 04/27/2009, -2/+10Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay.
- freeridstylee, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8Not if it's one of those bars that turns on the house lights at closing. I've been scared sober a few times.
- therealdoug, on 10/08/2009, -0/+7The title's a bit misleading, so we have to wait for someone to actually read the article to realize it's about finding 15 yr old girls attractive...
- HeyArnold, on 04/27/2009, -0/+6Dude, this article is garbage. All this is, is an article talking about how guys like girls who look younger, and how drinking affects their judgment. Now we all know what beer goggles are, and its got nothing to do with some hot chick that may not be 18. Its more like some chick that may be a rhino. Back to the whole "guys look for women that look young" thing. That's common damn sense, it doesn't take a anthropologist to tell you that. And its retarded that they saw it fit to link that "beer goggles". I don't know about you, but I don't have to worry about talking to minors at the bar, everyone gets carded. worst case scenario, claim plausible undeniably!
- kamakazitp, on 04/27/2009, -0/+6Thanks TIME, I now know that I can be so drunk that I am unable to read the label on my beer, or even stand up unassisted, yet my ability to determine the age of the girl next to me will be completely unaffected. Sounds like a logical conclusion.
- AYOTTERIOT, on 04/27/2009, -2/+8It's not that being intoxicated makes me find certain women more attractive, it just makes me more willing to tap the borderlines.
- TurnipFarm, on 04/27/2009, -0/+5"The study suggests that guys who claim they were too drunk to notice that a girl was underage are probably lying, since drunkenness doesn't have much to do with one's ability to estimate age or attractiveness."
CONCLUDING YOUR HYPOTHESIS FAIL. - therealdoug, on 10/08/2009, -0/+5I was a bar for 12 minutes once. It was a very painful transformation...
- slapded, on 04/27/2009, -0/+5colgate goggles
- AtomicTheory, on 04/27/2009, -1/+6Erroneous
- swiftheart, on 04/27/2009, -0/+5My hypothesis is this--if every guy prefers teenage girls, then the ones who actually go for teenage girls are simply "picky."
Said in a different way, evolutionarily speaking, a guy who only goes for teenage girls is equivalent to a woman who only dates guys who make $250,000/year. - MrOsis, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Erroneous on both accounts!
- thefredsociety, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4When I'm drunk and there's an ugly opportunity in front of me it's more like:
"what the heck! what's the worse that could happen?" - sodaman300, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4So beer goggles apparently turn people into drunken pedophiles?
And marijuana still isn't legal? What a shame. - bmcnally, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3En Vino, Veritas - Doc Holiday
- Airbear007, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3Wish i could digg you up more then once for that.
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -1/+4It just ***** up your judgment, it doesn't make you more attracted to uglier women, just causes you to make rash decisions.
- Gareshra, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3What, you mean they're both douchebags?
- gigitrix, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3THERE he is! I was getting worried then... god forbid someone should actually read the article...
- Biscuitz, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Well duh, Alcohol is mind altering.
- Shakermaker, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Beer goggles + last call = sleep with just about anyone.
I would say most unattractive women get picked up between the hours of 1:30am - 3am. By then, you'll try and tag any woman with a pulse at that point....within reason mind you. - inactive, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Ya.
- evilregis, on 04/27/2009, -3/+5Bzzt... it just lowers your standards. Same end result. You still do the ugly chick. You're just fully aware that you're doing the ugly chick.
- BabyWookie, on 04/27/2009, -1/+3What I love about teenage girls is: I get older, but they always stay the same.
- Ashoro, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Taking turns with Kate Beckinsale and Kiera Knightly?
- Glassmentality, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Yes, I'm guilty. I would have never hit on your Mom if I was sober.
- MrElRayes, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2This one time I was drinking and I met a girl and I did not think she was hott. Then I had sex with her. :/
It does affect. - dumass4u, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2AIDS
- elliam, on 04/27/2009, -1/+3Buried for a ***** article on a poor study
- BabyWookie, on 04/27/2009, -1/+3He did not say that he was a gay.
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