Beasts

The human outward appearance is many things. Everything it is can be strengthened or disturbed, and everything between. Since we address the outward we are also concerned with the others—those who see it. I discuss the core values at stake. Attractiveness is: the outward appearance that arouses the other erotically. Attractiveness is not the same as beauty. The beauty of the human outward appearance has two variants. Someone’s beautiful appearance in a picture—as if in large distance—is unlike the beauty of someone one is engaged with: someone who looks at one and whom one is looking at. I see you, you see me (now think of beauty, and ugliness). Exchanged gazes from the foundation of our social lives. We can strengthen or disturb these aspects of our appearance with interferences that are either permanent, as with cosmetic surgery, or temporary, as with cosmetics or body-building, or something in-between, such as tattoos. Enough to talk about.