I've been thinking about who (or what I guess) people are attracted to and why and I think it all comes down to who the most prominent role in a person life is at their sexual phase. Say a guy is really close to his mom when he hits puberty and starts discovering women, chances are he's going to look for a girl either physically or emotionally like his mother. In fact, I have a friend who's been really close to his sister his whole life and both of them are pretty distant from their parents. It's not a bad relationship mind you, they're just closer to each other than they are with their parents. Now I'd never point it out to them, but my buddy's girlfriend looks very similar to his sister, and his sister's boyfriend acts just like my buddy did back when his sister was going through her teenage years. This isn't the only example I've seen of this either, I'm sure if you look at the people around you (or even yourself) you'll notice it.

I just watched the actual show this is from and I thought it was interesting when his dad brought up his parents divorce and Nathaniel (the dude macking with the car) said he didn't see his parents much because of it. Makes me think if the only "role model" he had when he was going through his sexual phase was his car (or his car models as the episode explains), so now he's got a thing for cars.

I'm not a psychologist or anything, so I'm not sure if this is actually a phenomenon. Just something I've been thinking about for a while and thought it was pretty neat.