Suppose you meet with a smart, pretty, high-status person but his/her genitals are concealed and his/her other sexually-dimorphic features are ambiguous. Would you want to kiss this sexy person?
Begging the question. It assumes that the person is “pretty” and “sexy”, but isn’t that the part we were actually curious about? A better question would be: “Do you find people with sexually dimorphic features sexy?” Some people would say “yes”, some people would say “no”.
Good point. I’ve recently been talking with someone whose native language isn’t English and we’ve been using “pretty” as the imprecise translation of a non-gender-specific adjective. I have removed the word “sexy” entirely.
Begging the question. It assumes that the person is “pretty” and “sexy”, but isn’t that the part we were actually curious about? A better question would be: “Do you find people with sexually dimorphic features sexy?” Some people would say “yes”, some people would say “no”.
Good point. I’ve recently been talking with someone whose native language isn’t English and we’ve been using “pretty” as the imprecise translation of a non-gender-specific adjective. I have removed the word “sexy” entirely.