[Yaelle]

Re the beauty thing: powerful or popular men tend to only choose the most facially, figure-perfectly beautiful women on the planet and nobody else. Rock stars marry supermodels, sports stars marry the prettiest actresses and singers. While these women are absolutely lovely to see every day, I also wonder if these men do it for their friends and other men, as in “only someone of my status could have gotten her.”

[Flaming Conservative]

powerful or popular men tend to only choose the most facially, figure-perfectly beautiful women

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Or, they may marry an excellent woman; then, when their wife starts to show her age, humiliates her by having an affair with a younger, though obviously less moral, woman. (See Gen. Petraeus, and others of his ilk)
Thank God, that I’ve been blessed with a husband who believes cheating is out of the question, though, like any man, has had plenty of opportunities.

[GnuThere]

I don’t think there’s any doubt. In those circles, men seek beauty, women seek money, so it’s essentially a business transaction, it’s just not called that, outloud anyway.

[ASA Vet]

only someone of my status wealth could have gotten her.”