What do you think is actually "beautiful" ?

     A couple of days ago, i started a interesting conversation with a colleague. The whole discussion started from my friend's statement that i, am in fact, a very weird person (i should emphasize the fact that the term weird was used in a mild manner, as my friend didn't want to refer to me as damn right crazy).     I was labeled so because i take interest in what the majority consider "the ugly" or "the perverted", and by that i mean, i like to get in the mind of the people who create such things, i take pleasure in overviewing every little detail that composes one thing or another, it gives a whole new and different perspective when you observe the whole body of work in my opinion; that's why i consider "beautiful" things that usually have besides them a warning like "viewer discretion is advised".
    Now don't get me wrong, i don't have a macabre personality, nor am i a sadist, i like "normal" things like anyone too, and that's why i came up with a question to ask the mindless zerg that label people like me wrongfully: What do you think is actually "beautiful"?


    Well, over the ages the term has influenced how people think, and more important, what people percieve as being right and wrong, allowed or taboo. Point and fact: from about the 15th till well into the 18th century noblemen and women from Europe where mostly fat, thus the idea that being fat is being beautiful and wealthy; another classic example is homosexuality, yep, you read right, in fact sex was, and still is a big taboo all over the world but, something you might not know, is that the japanese embraced their sexuality... no, they didn't have sex in the streets or anything like that, but they acknowledged the phenomenon and respected it. Geishes wore had to please the client in any shape or form and meet his every request, even if that meant to sing, play a tune, dance, or call in a male geisha to satisfy the client. Oh, and be advised that geishas were never taboo in the japanese culture, meanwhile in the rest of the world people still struggle with homosexuality.
    While i don't really have anything against the people who like being told to what is good or bad (even if you think you choose what you like, those choises are actually limited), i do hate the consequences, the most important of which is the incapability to understand... anything other than what they are programmed to like.
    I am confronted daily with people who literally can't understand why i like a genre of music, or type of movie, or why i like anime, and especially why i like certain pictures.
    
    The answer is very simple, i like to look beyond what the culture in which i grew told me is wrong, or taboo, and see the real beauty. Oh and by the way, if i'm still on this subject, the expression "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a letter away from the truth, as real beauty is in the eye of the beholders.