Beauty and the beast

Wait, lest i be misconstrued, I must say that brute, cro-magnon face nay look good in a porn movie, but it doesn't work in real life either.Real masculine charm is found in men who do not have the slightest inkling that they are attractive or if they do, they don't really care. I once knew a young model who was very different from all the others working in the fashion show circuit, because he was really only modeling to get himself through school. Now, I've heard that a lot, but he was the only male model who actually dressed like a working student and who would carry his books to rehearsals and study for exams backstage. He was the very essence of unaffected. When we met again, a few years later, he was on the arm of a very rich matrona ( who should have known better, for nothing in the world ages a woman more than a younger man on her arm). Our hero had been prettified beyond recognition. The clotheswere of the very latest trend (nothing spells"boytoy" more than the latest fashion on a grown man),the skin had been polished beyond perfection as to be almost girlish, the unself-conscious manner had been sharpened to a perpetueal and unnerving camera-readiness. I didn't recognize him when I met him again, and felt a pang of sadness when I did. The very essence of a beautyful man had been tampered with, and I felt corrupted. Beauty can be as corrupting and as deadening for men as for women.
As i write this, I feel suddenly aware of how judgemental i sound. Well, If beauty can corrupt those of us who do not have to carry such a terible burden. The mirror, indeed has two faces. One that reveals both beauty as well as the judgmental stares of others. And that constant judgement, the obsession to live up to it, is the source of the real rot. The irony is that it rots those who look and judge, as well as those who preen and pose.