Mug shot goes viral

[Hum]

A star was born this week in Stockton, California: Jeremy Meeks, a 30-year-old convicted felon whose hunky mugshot ? featuring dreamy slate-blue eyes and chiseled cheekbones ? has turned him into a viral heartthrob. ?Definitely the sexiest mugshot I?ve ever seen!? gushes one of 16,000-plus comments on the photo, posted on Facebook on Wednesday by the Stockton Police Department. But while no previous arrest photo has attracted this much attention in the two years since the page was set up, according to the department, it?s far from the first time women have gone gaga for a bad guy.

 

?This is a really great example of an evolutionary lag ? how women still find things attractive that don?t necessarily translate well into the modern world,? Vinita Mehta, a Washington, D.C.?based psychotherapist, tells Yahoo Shine. Because while being muscular and tough enough to thrive in dangerous situations might have been necessary for human survival back in caveman times, ?these are not the things that help us survive and reproduce today,? notes Mehta, who is writing a book titled ?Paleo Love? about how Stone Age genes can complicate modern relationships.

A spate of studies, including a small one in 2012 by psychologist Kristina Durante called ?Ovulation Leads Women to Perceive Sexy Cads as Good Dads,? have found hormones to blame for putting looks and edgy charisma over niceness and reliability. Another in 2013 found that a majority of women, perhaps because of those old Stone Age values, most desired men possessing what?s called the ?Dark Triad? personality traits of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism ? a seemingly repellant combo of duplicity, insincerity, self-importance, and callousness.

And then, Mehta notes, there are women whose own realities simply draw them to the dark side. ?Especially for women who are living on the edge, or under stress, there?s a push toward the bad boy,? she says. ?Some follow a ?faster life? strategy and are living amid instability, both financially and relationship-wise, and are thinking about the now rather than the long term.?   

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[DocM]

Why some women constantly do this, and keep going back to abusive men, is a mystery. Crazy even.

[Draconian Guppy]

Why some women constantly do this, and keep going back to abusive men, is a mystery. Crazy even.

Low self esteem, bad parenting, etc.

[Angelic Marge]

"has turned him into a viral heartthrob"

 

A heartthrob? He looks like he was chiselled from stone  :wacko:

[Hum]

He looks like my car mechanic. :wacko: