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According to Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and esthete, there are three elements to beauty:

grace, strength, and perfection.

Only the Gods and their angels are entitled to have perfection.

Humans can have grace or strength or both.

A woman can only have grace, because if she has strength, too, she loses much or all of her femininity, or in other words, her essence.

A man can afford to have both grace and strength, for a strong man can also be graceful.

So, it seems that a man can have more elements of beauty than a woman.

Pessoa goes on to say that if a man lusts after a female body, he is under the influence of the procreation instinct, but if he praises the male body, then he is under the influence of the erotic or esthetic imnpulse.

So, draw your own conclusions...

It is clear that Pessoa cultivated the Greek ideal of beauty which placed the male body above the female body.

It also seems clear to me that our lust for muscle (strength) is not incompatible with grace. I for one desire a graceful muscled man, otherwise he is just a robot.

Our love of muscle is therefore a very natural manifestation of our esthetic or erotic impulse. Something we should all be very proud of.

I hope this makes sense.