re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I often wondered why we make ourselves look sick in order to seem attractive. I seem to recall that consumptive women were considered sexy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

My own personal theory is that the human genome is so chock full of retroviruses and latent diseases that we are somehow drawn to sickness.

Men are attracted to women that seem weak. It allows the men to protect the women.