Cute, Pretty, Beautiful or Sexy

Since I complained about curvy and what it means to feminine beauty I thought I'd actually deal with my idea of feminine beauty in more depth. To make it easy I'd thought I'd divide my idea of femine beauty in to four categories: cute, pretty, beautiful and sexy.

Cute

Cute to me implies child-like qualities. Cute invokes more the feeling I have towards children then I do to adults. When someone is cute I am more likely to want to hold and protect them and "play" with them. Also cute doesn't have to have an esthetic value to it. Troll Dolls are cute but are not ortherwise esthetically appealing. Also cute can invoke the more dangerous side of the psyche because child-like also implies weak and defenseless.

Pretty

Pretty is completely a matter of esthetics. If you are not esthetically pleasing you cannot be pretty. However pretty also invokes the idea of fragility. Esthetics are easily messed with. Introduce a flaw to a pretty person and they are no longer pretty. Esthetics was all their apperance had going for them. In my opinion pretty is the worst thing to be. Well okay it beats being a complete freak of nature but of the four listed here pretty is the worst thing to be.

Beautiful

Okay some of you may have a hard time with my definintion of beautiful. Beautiful is essentially the manifestation of something well done. A beautiful person can have less esthetic appeal then someone who is pretty but introduce a flaw to the esthetic and it serves only to highlight the person's apperance. By well done I mean a beautiful person will look healthy and well formed and will generally be symetrical as much as our species permits anyway. Also they will appear functional. A beautiful person doesn't inspire a need to protect they inspire a need to excell and to be worthy of them. As an example if  you were a violinist and I gave you a Stradivarius you would most likely  not use it to play "Mary had a little lamb". You would probably use it to play a far more complexe piece of music and in front of a large audience and most likely you would tend to it to make sure it was always in good working order.

Sexy

Sexy is pretty self-explanatory. If you consistantly invoke a desire for sex regardless of your esthetic, you're sexy. It's not too complicated. Mind you I could have used sexy as a component of female beauty like I did with esthetic rather than make it a type of female beauty but sexy deserves to be described as a type because I've encountered too many women who I'd like to have sex with that didn't fit into the other categories.