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

[Achebe]

Love needs beauty more than beauty needs love.


A mother will always love their children, sure, but before there can be children there has to be attraction and that takes beauty. Even if that beauty is seen through 6-pack deep beer googles or lonely desperation.

On the other hand (the left one), there are plenty of hot whores hawking their fresh waxed vaginas on the internet for my personal pleasure. They are beautiful, but i don't love them. Beauty doesn't need love. And please don't bring up some bullshit about abstract beauty on the inside. As that's love, not beauty.

i think beauty always is internal, that is it´s created inside the perceiver. 
the different beauty ideals (that make up only a small part of beautiful things) on which humans agree are bred into us by instinct or learned in different societies. but that doesn´t matter.. from an individual point of view there is no definition of beauty.
and everything needs love even the whores on the internet.

The 'beauty ideals' are not that different across societies....too much is made of variations at the extremes.
Women who are in the top quartile of beauty in Ethiopia, China, Lebanon, Sweden, and Brazil will be considered beautiful across all these cultures.
It comes down to facial proportions for the most part.

Beauty is neither a necessary nor sufficient precondition for love, as I've seen enough good looking men with ugly wives and vice versa, but it increases the probability of attraction, as for the most part, good looking people tend to fall in love with each other.
Sorry that evolution isn't politically correct.