It likens beauty to a limitless credit card, implying a good face guarantees access, attention, and status, says The Future Laboratorys Houghton, adding that male consumers are drawn to looksmaxxing through fitness culture, discipline, and self-improvement narratives, with online communities built around these ideas
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Neither one of us had attended one before