An excellent post at www.file22.com on the effect of alcohol on perceived attractiveness reminds me of a theory a friend and I came up with the Cunningham-Isherwood Law, otherwise known as “all the good ones are taken”.
The law states that for a given member of the opposite sex,
Brains * Beauty * Availability = Constant.
There are anomalies to this rule, but they tend to be short lived phenomena.
More research is needed on the effect of alcohol on the perception ofbeauty – since we all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Do we need to include a correction for the inebration state of the observer? Can we get funding to persue this line of research?
It’s kind of bizarre to see this article mention the Cunningham-Isherwood law, and googling for that phrase comes up with an intersting number of references – it was even on Wikipedia at one point.