A man who loves a woman only for her beauty doesn’t love her. Those relationships are doomed to end sooner or later—often sooner. But well-meaning parents and a well-meaning society do young women no favor by denying the importance of looks in attracting a man. And a woman does neither herself nor her marriage a favor if she denies the importance to her husband and therefore their marriage of her trying to remain physically attractive. . . .
It is often countered that men’s looks are also important. But they are rarely as important as a man’s personality, masculinity, brains, power, or wealth in attracting a woman. The power of the visual in men is simply far greater than the power of the visual in women. The fact that physical attractiveness is not distributed at all equally… is one of the many built-in unfair features of life.
Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Genesis: God, Creation, and Destruction, pg.343
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