Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Disgusting

Those who have a low sensitivity to disgust tend to be liberals or libertarians; those who are easily disgusted tend to be conservative.


-- from a Geoffrey Miller (Spent, The Mating Mind) Twitter feed 
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