XENOPHONEZ,

V3 is not the best that Poser users have.

Also, this is your second invocation in this thread of that statement about your irritation...I let the first one pass....

You are unfairly switching the context and definition of the objectors. The objection I have, and others have stated or hinted at (and let them speak for themselves), is this, in essence: the V3 attempted aesthetic or style is solely concerned with wired human perceptions of attractiveness driven by sex, such as symmetry, firmness of flesh, high cheek bones, wide-apart large eyes, puckered full lips, that 'locked-in' curve at the hip, and large breasts.

There is nothing wrong with tapping into this per se.

However, the V-aesthetic (as I will call it) is exploitive and manipulative of it. There is no letup. There is no deviation. There is no moderation. There is no tolerance for almost. There is an ever increasing concentration of this power, until it's..."Enough already."

So...when the objection arises stemming from this surfeit of stimulus, we are not saying that beautiful people are not real. We are saying that you do not encounter actual human beings walking around in objective reality from whom everything has been stripped except that which qualifies, to a ferocious degree, as perfect and beautiful in its category.

If you were a god and were assembling the ideal female, would you REALLY find the most perfect and beautiful legs, arms, breasts, lips, hair, eyes, etc, and zip them together into a human? This creature would scare the living daylights out of you if she ever actually walked across your path. She would be Over-real and you would sense she was a monster.

In my opinion, the V-aesthetic is not about true human beauty and sexuality, in which we see each other as participating in the Form of Beauty; it is about stimulus-response.

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