The men you have met were likely trying to impress you by agreeing with your sentiments about the wastefulness and absurdity of modern beauty. The fact of the matter is that if the alteration (surgery, bleaching, tucking, what-have-you) isn't obvious most men will prefer it. Larger breasts, whiter teeth, silkier hair, absence of body hair, shapelier figure, most men prefer them.
--Justin Frankyl
The key here is the phrase "if it isn't obvious". Larger breasts, whiter teeth, silkier hair, absence of body hair, shapelier figure describe many women under 40. Men definitely prefer women under 40 as sexual partners. And women prefer men under 40. They don't have those splindly little arms and pot bellies and bald heads.
Can we just agree that people are a little more repulsive as they age? Women who try to change that are missing out on one of the great opportunities of their lives--a sex free existence.
Again, it's boo-friggin-hoo for women. I don't get it. Do women think most men are hotly pursued by the opposite sex? Hardly-- most of them lead lives of quiet desperation, where they are rarely approached, or even smiled at, and they have a whole lifetime of it. Women get nailed with the same at menopause---and boo hoo hoo. It huuuuuurrrrrrrttttts.
