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To: one_less who wrote (235975)	7/11/2007 3:36:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I know what you mean, I think. But I'll be honest with you, I don't know what "real beauty" is and isn't. Seems to me there are many kinds of real beauty. There is beauty in people who are kind. But there is also pure physical beauty, and that seems real also. I don't want to be seen as arguing that the human body is not beautiful- I find humans wonderful to look at. I love art which uses the human body. I'm only trying to say that I find advertising, and some entertainment, to crassly exploit the human body, and our natural procreative urges, and that this is done to the detriment (imo, based on what I would like to see in society) of our society. I don't think inner beauty turns everyone on. Some guys really need the visual stimulus of external beauty, and that's fine- I don't see anything wrong with that, but I don't think we need to organize society around those principles either. I guess I just want a little more restraint, a little more balance, and a little more of the "real beauty" of modesty- not frigidity, or hypocritical morality- but simple modesty.