Would you ever consider dating someone that you did not find physically attractive?

Before you read this you may take note that I greatly value intelligence and personality when selecting someone to date. The following is my counter argument for those of you who put little thought into the subject and automatically verbally attack users who answered no to this question.

I don't mind being the minority on this one. I will not date someone that I am not physically attracted to, because I will not be intimate with someone I don't find visually appealing. Yes, you can call me shallow and make claims that inner beauty is all that matters/intimacy isn't THAT important, but I'm sticking to my guns this time.

I don't see how wanting to date someone physically attractive is shallow. It's not, it's called preference. Now, let's say for example you're not a fan of veggies. We all know that vegetables are packed full of important vitamins that your body needs in order to stay healthy but, you absolutely despise them all the same even though everyone can see that veggies offer you good things. Still, you have no taste for them, so you instead opt to take a daily multi-vitamin and scarf down junk food since that is your PREFERENCE. Physical beauty vs. Inner beauty is no different.

I also find people to be quite hypocritical when it comes to this subject. Let me provide another example.

Say you meet the partner of your dreams as far as having great chemistry and compatability. There's just one thing... they're not exactly what you would deem "attractive". In any case you befriend this person and hang out quite often. Now let's say you meet a person who is nearly identical to your friend in the personality department but, this person is quite good looking and you befriend that individual as well. So one day by some coincidence you are approached by each of these individuals and asked if you would like to become something more than just friends.

Which one do you choose?

I've personally known quite a few people who lack greatly in the personal hygeine department, don't take care of their bodies, etc. turn down perfectly decent people who ask them out, because they don't meet their physical standards. So you see, it's not just the "beautiful" people that are what many refer to as "shallow", it is simply preference. So I guess I'm sorry to those of you like "budgerigar42" who find people like me disgusting since I have a specific type that I typically date.

As my friend just pointed out as I presented this online debate to him: "The term "Shallow" is just something that people call you when you turn them down, or have "STANDARDS. Human beings are hardwired to want to mate with sexually attractive people being you want to press those genes on to your offspring. You aren't going to look at a girl that looks like Patton Oswalt and go "MAN! I wanna f*** that woman!" Unless she's what you consider sexually attractive."

Also just an interesting tidbit here, some evolutionary biologists have even linked physical beauty to survival. You may read a bit more on that here: http://www.fluther.com/21076/...