physical attraction is because of how arbitrary it can be. Tastes vary person to person. But they also vary culture to culture and age to age. Indeed, attraction that is rooted simply in the physical is culturally determined and changes depending on where you are in the world and where you are in history. We are all subject to the evolving ideal of beauty, which Reischer and Koo outline in detail in their article “The Body Beautiful.”2 My sister and her husband have lived in Asia for close to eight