# colours and sexual attraction

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 14, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874 "2011-05-14T04:05:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874/21 "2011-05-17T17:57:07Z")

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Colors have an effect on moods.

In our culture, pink is _so_ ingrained as a color of girlishness or femininity. For myself, I’m attracted to very feminine features, and depending on the girl, if pink is a good color for her, it can really intensify her feminine aspects… making her sexuality stand out more.

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**Author:** ![bardos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bardos/32/1069_2.png) [@bardos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bardos)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874/22 "2011-05-17T19:31:15Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> That may have been what she was trying to do, consciously or sub-.
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> I’m big on “Beauty comes from within”, and so does attractiveness. She may have been TRYING to be more attractive… to you, perchance?

The Sunday as were all taking leave, and she was headed for the airport, I finally told her I was in love with her.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874/23 "2011-05-17T22:40:54Z")

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> [@bardos](#):
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> Plus I could smell her hair, drove me crazy.

Bingo. From the [SDMB Archives](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-291291.html):

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> This article is from the very well respected online journal nature ([Latest science news, discoveries and analysis](http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040524/pf/040524-12_pf.html)) gives some good information. However, it concludes that no one really knows why smell is so strongly linked to memory and if you figure it out, you will probably win a Nobel Prize.

My WAG is that it was her scent not her clothing that tripped your triggers. 🙂

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colours-and-sexual-attraction/581874/24 "2011-05-18T00:52:18Z")

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Could be she is in her fertile time of the month too, pheromones and such, which also may have her select a more ‘sexual’ mode of dress subconsciously. So the color may not be the cause at all, but your attraction and her choice of clothes may be linked to her fertility cycle.

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