Aliens have abducted you and several of your friends and acquaintances for a study on human sexuality. Included among your group are people you are attracted to and not attracted to.
The aliens will randomly re-assign your companions minds to different bodies.
They will then pump you full of potent aphrodisiacs and place you in a room with two persons, who will likewise be drugged.The drugs leave your power to choose intact, but will be impossible to “wait out”.
One will be someone who’s mind you are strongly attracted to*, but definitely not their body.
One will be someone who’s body you are strongly attracted to*, but whose mind you detest.
*SO if you have one
You will be informed of who’s mind is occupying each body.
Whoops, forgot to post my answer (sorry for the double post).
I’d pick mind over body, sex is super mental for me and if I’m not with a person I can engage with on that level then I feel cheated.
Physical attractiveness is fluid and directly relational to the mind that inhabits the body, for me.
As long as the person is not my partner, it would be a meaningless encounter for me. Might as well go with the nice body. If it were more than just a one-time occurrence, I’d go for the mind.
If I detest a person’s mind and therefore identity, I’m not giving them the satisfaction of great sex. I can always close my eyes and pretend the person with the bad body is great-looking.
In my experience, feeling extremely horny will override any negative feelings towards someone I dislike. Seeing as I have no choice, I am going to choose the body.
If you remove the aphrodisiacs and make it a save-the-world thing–where I had to pick one–I might then be able to pick the mind. But it would be out of spite for the person I disliked and the idea that I might be able to enter a relationship with the person with the good mind, later, proving the attraction was not just physical.
I assume all these people are of my preferred sex. Otherwise, I go with physical attraction in both scenarios.