The "Pussy Pass" is not a fiction, a myth, or an "offensive male delusion".

Personal/collective experience and a plethora of headlines (https://menz.org.nz/2011/the-pussy-pass-an-offensive-delusion-or-an-accurate-term/, also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/PussyPass) compel us to take the "pussy pass" seriously or at the very least to give it a second look.

Critics often claim that the "pussy pass" is yet another anti-feminist fiction, an "offensive delusion", a myth (http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2011/05/20/using-the-myth-of-the-pussy-pass-to-justify-rape-and-murder/).

The "pussy pass" has its place in serious conversation. There is a great volume of experimental data available that could be productively, synthetically crossed with the findings of other Sciences, pulchronomics (the economic study of beauty), for example.

Precious data can be leveraged to provide a rock-solid, objective foundation to the phenomenon known as the pussy pass and contribute to a more data-driven approach.

Does the pussy pass really exist, when it comes to verdicts and sentencing?

The short answer to that question is: YES.

• Physical attractiveness of a female has a significant influence on judges sentencing.

• Physical attraction towards a female can have noteworthy effects on judicial outcomes.

• The more unattractive the criminal, the higher the sentence. Or conversely, the more attractive the criminal, the lower the sentence. The results of three studies show a minimum increase of 119.25% and a maximum increase of 304.88% (!).

Well then, what about jurors?

• We perceive attractive females more favourably than unattractive people on many measures.

• We perceive attractive females as: more intelligent; more socially skilled; possessing more socially desirable qualities; more appealing personalities; more likely to generally succeed; more altruistic; and more moral.

• All of this is heightened by the ‘contrast bias’: when an attractive female is directly compared to an unattractive male, the attractive female is seen as more attractive, with the consequences that we know, and the unattractive male is seen as less attractive.
  

• The baby face effect (Zebrowitz and McDonald ): The more baby-faced a female adult is, the less likely he/she is found to be guilty for ‘intentional actions’ in civil claims (see below).

“What is beautiful is good.”

When a person comes into to contact with an attractive person, it triggers activity in the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC), the region of the brain associated with processing positive emotions, stimuli, and reward.

When we meet an unattractive person, activity is triggered in the insular cortex, a region associated with negative emotions and pain.

SOURCES

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[3] Appearance and Punishment: The Attraction-Leniency Effect in the Courtroom (1985) By John E. Stewart

[4] The Impact of Litigants' Baby-Facedness and Attractiveness on Adjudications in Small Claims Courts (1991) by Leslie A. Zebrowitz and Susan M. McDonald

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