Habermas' Paradigms

Today In class we were introduced to Habermas' Paradigms, which are different ways of exploring human sexuality and I found it interesting to examine the various ways that an individual can look at sexuality. In total there are three paradigms : Empirical Analytic, Critical Theoretic, and Situational Interpretive. Empirical Analytic, which I should also note that this is the paradigm used by Masters and Johnson, is considered to be the default organizing paradigm, and is scientific in nature. Evidence is very important, along with prediction and control; essentially this paradigm is developed by what you see, observe, and calculate. This paradigm is used to classify things/qualites, and anything that doesn't fit within the norm is considered to be a problem. This perspective also believes that sexual attractiveness originally stemmed from evolution. This is a theory that I have heard of before, but is one that I find particularilly interesting! Just to think that the reason as to why a woman, for example, may be considered to be more attractive to the opposite sex if she has a nice skin complexion and/or healthy thick hair as opposed to a female with blemished or dry skin and thinner hair could all be linked to our very early ancestors who were looking for females that appeared healthy, thus able to bear healthy offspring.