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Why Pretty Boys Thrive In Healthy Nations

Wendy AtterberryMarch 17, 2010 //

No offense to Amelia, but the kind of guys she has the hots for, like Ryan Gosling and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are a little … how should I say this? Really wimpy looking. [Excuse me, have you seen Ryan's muscles? Whatevs. Great excuse to post his photo! -- Editor Amelia] They’re so pretty and winsome, they practically look like girls. But, of course, Amelia isn’t alone in her love for the pretty boys. Plenty of you also harbor celebrity crushes on Gosling and JGL, not to mention dudes like Robert Pattinson and Zac Efron. So, what gives? Why are so many modern day women going for the girly men instead of the type of square-jawed, rugged guys that captured women’s hearts in the days of yore? Keep reading »

All The Pretty Boys

Catherine StrawnOctober 23, 2008 //

Starting tomorrow the prettiest of all the pretty boys, Zac Efron, will appear in “High School Musical 3,” the final chapter in the franchise that made him a star. While we were a little turned on by his performance in last year’s “Hairspray,” we just can’t get over how there isn’t a stray hair on his head, and how perfectly groomed his eyebrows are. Was he born this way, or does he have a glam-squad that keeps him beautiful? We’re inclined to think the latter. Pretty boys are nice to look at, but we don’t think we’d date one for fear that people would take one look at us with them and scream, “Mismatch!” Below, some pretty boy archetypes. Keep reading »