• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Many moons ago, I heard this idea about Russia, and why they had so many attractive women.

    It was posited that due to their substantial wartime losses from WW2, there were far more women than men in the populace, so any dude could snag a hottie. And then they had progeny that also grew up to be hotties, creating a higher density of hot people.

    I don’t know if this is real, but I think it’s interesting to think about.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t know if this is real, but I think it’s interesting to think about.

      Sure interesting to think about, but it’s definitely not that easy, genetics are hella complicated and humans are not peas.

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      6 days ago

      Sounds credible, reminds me of this old Icelandic beer ad where they asked why Ireland has no pretty women and Iceland is full of them. Blame the Vikings

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      6 days ago

      Russia has particularly many attractive women? Russia has many women that use silly amounts of makeup, but this is probably the first I hear of Russia considered having an unusual amount of attractive women.

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        6 days ago

        It has a lot of women in bad economic circumstances ready to enter some kind of sex work. So that’s nice.