Unreasoned attraction

In the natural world, male and female both usually choose the most attractive or strongest opposite sex as their mating partner. From the evolutionary point of view, logically there should be some choosing criterias involved in the courting process so that the offspring produced would have a more superior mix of genes that would better ensure the survival of their species.

For example, mating with a strong partner would give higher chance of producing a strong offspring for better survival rate, where else mating with a physically attractive partner would have a higher possibility of producing an attractive offspring that would in turn be a good mating candidate when it matures, hence ensuring the continuity of the species.

Among humans, eventhough both sexes choose their partner most of the time following a highly abstract feeling we called 'love', logical thinking (no, I don't have pointy ears thank you) would suggest that there should still be some hidden factors taken into account during the human courting process that would bring to a better combination of genes in the offspring.

Perhaps these hidden factors are what made us find ourselves being inexplicably attracted to one another sometimes. There's no explanation for why we have certain preferences for things like physical appearences, thinking patterns, body scents, behaviours, etc. Most of the time what human seek in mating partners are the things that they themselves lack, the Chinese gave this universal rule a name - Yin & Yang.

This rule suggests that everything has two facets, and we need both Yin and Yang under balance in order to continue our existence. When we are born, no matter how perfect we ourselves are, there's always something we'll feel we are lacking in, and as we become adult, we begin to search for these qualities we lack from our potential life partners or what some may call soulmates, depending on your level of romaticism.

If until this point you are still unsure or very much blur about what this 'diary' article of mine is about, it's because I've not reached my point yet.

So what does all these mating or Yin & Yang stuff have to do with G/L/Bs? The answer is nothing, absolutely nothing and that's the point.

As G, L and sometimes B, all these better genes mumbo-jumbo should have no relevency or whatsoever to do with us, because most of us probably do not even think about having adopted children much less making one (through artificial insemination, naturally).

So why the preferences for races, heights, weights, looks, body types, hairiness, lengths, sizes, positions, personalities, mannerisms, dress codes, etc.. ?

It seems perfectly natural for us to seek what rouses our sexual desires, what satisfies our minds, what comforts our soul. Yet within the evolutionary context, they serve no more purpose than a child choosing a vanilla ice-cream over a strawberry ice-cream.

I always thought that there's a reason behind every nature's creation, a neverending chain of cause and effect, so how does B/L/Bs fit into this grand scheme of balance?

Could it be that G/L/Bs are a variable thrown into the perfect equation of men and women in order to bring forth change? For we know that progress is seeded by change, where else perfectly balanced system will only bring about stagnation.

Is it evolution's way of trimming out split ends? Or could it be that our society is heading towards a sexless future where men and women are no longer two but one?

Anyway, in the end I guess I'm still pretty much stuck with the question of why I long for a Russel Crowe..
:-P