Lust vs Love

True, and the dogs clean all the crumbs.

And clearly a pre-requisite for love.

personally I think it's a viewpoint manufactured by Hollywood and the fashion media.

People are allowed to have different preferences. It's not always a conspiracy.

I am attracted to certain styles of makeup, especially around the eyes. I'm attracted to clothes that show off cleavage/boobs, including formal dresses. I love the way calves look in heels (and I'm generally more attracted to taller women).

These preferences are pretty common, and are largely traceable to fairly conventional sex preferences, probably with some decent evolutionary basis. Obviously they're popular enough that people do generally associate a lot of these stylistic choices with sexiness.

And sure, there are degrees to this, where high fashion may go so far in a particular direction that it's no longer sexually attractive, but they do that on purpose, and sometimes being over the top visually is associated with other traits that are also attractive (like creativity).

And there are other looks that just aren't for me. I don't find red lipstick to be very attractive. Or shades of pink blush on a face. Or even very pale faces. For lingerie and stuff, I don't like lace. I don't find it attractive when hair is basically completely locked down with pins and berets and doesn't move or bob with the movement of the person whose hair it is.

But I also don't think that people are faking their preferences, or that those are manufactured preferences created by corporate marketing.

I'll continue to like what I like, and you can continue to like what you like, but there's no need to insist that your way is better than my way.