So I made a post in the Pony thread about how cosplay somehow turns an average-looking girl into a hot one. Often times, the costume is simple and may not even involve makeup. It usually just involves showing a little bit more skin.
So I figure there may be may be a few reasons:
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Cosplayers are usually geeky or are among geeky guys.
- Perhaps it is simply that most geeky people don't expect themselves to look all that great (e.g., This thread and some of the comments, including my own.) Any time a person puts on make-up and a nice dress, they're more likely to be more attractive…but from average-looking to hot?
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Like I mentioned before, maybe it's just showing skin.
- Sometimes it may just be as simple as the attachment of nudity to sexuality in modern-day Western culture. If a girl shows more skin, then she may be associated with a greater level of sexiness.
I forgot another couple of reasons, but that's why I started the thread. I wanted to know what you guys thought. Why does that happen? Or does it even happen at all?
The second part (i.e., Love is Weird) is something I've seen from myself and in others.
A person I know began to like a girl, and I thought that she might go for him. I had anticipated that they would eventually fall in love, but I wanted to know a baseline, subjective assessment from him about her looks before they began to date and another assessment after when he fell in love.
Of course, before they began to date, he said that he thought she was cute, but in the course of a few months, she became beautiful to him.
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…He didn't like it when I pointed that out…
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Is it love or social desirability? Something else? What do you think?