Function and Beauty, by Mishima Yukio
"But in civilized society, the value of functional beauty and decorative beauty is inverted for both men and women."
Function and Beauty
Mishima Yukio
Just as airplanes and cars are beautiful, the human body is beautiful. If women are beautiful, men are also beautiful. However, the difference in the nature of their beauty is entirely due to the difference between their functions. Because the beauty of airplanes is totally concentrated in the function of flight, and cars are also so. However, the human body has ceased to be beautiful because the bodies of men and women have deviated from the functions that nature has granted them, or because, due to the progress of civilization, they no longer have need of those functions.