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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not purely innate.

Beauty and "hotness" are standards that are indeed culturally determined. That is clear to anyone who pays attention to changing norms over the decades as well as the impact the internet.

The US has had a bigger impact on global standards in the age of the internet. [/quote]

Oh, nonsense.  Nothing has changed in the "age of the internet" any more than it did in the "age of the magazine, the age of the movie or the age of photography."

Adonis and Aphrodite are attributable to the ancients as to what attracts women and men to one another.  Nothing has changed in thousands of years.   [/quote]

This is pretty much exactly right. Very little has changed over thousands of years, and standards of beauty and hotness are remarkably consistent across cultures and continents. That applies to both bodily proportions and facial features. There is not that much variation. The idea that beauty is some arbitrary product of "culture" is one of those contemporary shibboleths that some people passionately, often angrily, insist is true in a vain attempt to convince themselves and others that it is true. Fashions in clothing and hair do change, but the physical attractiveness of humans not nearly so much.

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