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This is the normal evolution of human attraction over a lifespan. Most men do not spend their entire lives looking at women through the adolescent lens of “hot, want sex, must act.” Physical beauty may initiate attention, no one argues against that, but mature attraction becomes increasingly selective, contextual,...

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