Pathogen Disgust and Mate Preferences for Femininity in Women's Faces, Voices, and Personality Traits Among Chinese Lesbian and Bisexual Women.

Recent studies have demonstrated that pathogen-related factors are associated with preferences for exaggerated sex-typical characteristics in potential partners' faces and voices. However, most of these studies have primarily examined individual differences in heterosexual men, heterosexual women, and gay men. The present study investigates whether pathogen disgust, as measured by the Three-Domain of Disgust Scale, predicts individual differences in preferences for feminine characteristics in faces, voices, and personality traits of romantic partners among Chinese lesbian and bisexual women (n = 499). Results indicated that preferences for feminine characteristics in women's faces and voices were positively associated with pathogen disgust, but not with moral or sexual disgust. Preferences for feminine personality traits were positively associated with both pathogen and sexual disgust, but unrelated to moral disgust. These findings suggest that individual differences in pathogen disgust contribute to variations in femininity preferences across multiple domains of romantic partner selection among Chinese lesbian and bisexual women, highlighting the significant role of disease-related factors in shaping romantic partner preferences.