It couldn't be that a woman's beauty was designed to attract men for
procreation  because fat ugly women find men and have babies also,
don't ask me why or how, must have something to do with "closing
time".

So why is there beauty?
People admire beauty and usually beauty gets more attention, it's like
a power, a natural high, a thrill, a rush, a fever.  Why is that?

Some men seek out a beautiful woman as a symbol of status.  Others
look and perceive the inability to provide for the assumed high
maintenance.  Some become jealous of the beauty of someone else and
perceive it as a threat, while others just look and salivate.

If beauty has a purpose then surely ugly must have it as well, and not
just for the ugly jokes, no?  I don't really know of any beauty jokes
but there are plenty of ugly ones. There are no jokes that start off
with "Your mama is so beautiful that..........". Can you make one up?

I don't see women striving to look ugly, though there are some that
might......well you know.   The business of beauty is in the hundreds
of billions of dollars range.

We perceive beauty in other materialistic ways such as a beautiful car
or house, a flower or color.  So is beauty just a perception, a feel
good perception?  The sight of beauty often stimulates us and gives
rise to blood pressure while ugly is something we tend to avoid. Why?

We don't like to drive around in ugly cars so there must be something
to this beauty thing.

We know that beauty has nothing to do with intelligence or ability, so
then what is beauty for?  What do we do with it except gaze upon it?

Does beauty have meaning beyond visual perception?