Beauty, Love... Which one needs the other most?

[Achebe]

How romantic to reduce it to a scientific equation.

Love makes the beloved more beautiful.
Besides, when the lights are off, who gives a shit about symmetry? Nobody.

To the question, love looks for beauty. Boredom is always a lack of love.

But to get to the stage where the lights will be turned off, the players in this drama need to be beautiful. 
Otherwise, when the lights are off, the participants are probably picturing other people. Now that's fine as a compromise, but is it love?That's what international pick up artist Rooshv says.

Now everyone has different standards, because we're all ugly to varying degrees. For someone, a woman who's a 5 is beautiful enough to fall in love with, because he himself is quite average looking. A woman who's an 8 is more beautiful, but out of his league, and evolution has programmed him to get turned off by that, because in another era, the king of the tribe would've smashed his bollocks.

It's strange to me that someone can think of love as so entirely visual.
I think attraction involves the whole person.
Love has nothing to do with the visual.

What studies are you referencing?

I think Ray proposed this false dichotomy just to watch us chase our own tails....

Love starts off by being visual, then involves the whole person. Eventually, it morphs into familiarity, then contempt, which explains the divorce rate.
Again, I'm talking about sexual love, not filial love or platonic 'love' or a love of gooseberries.