It occured to me that our present rating scale, while useful, doesn't really allow for the nuances in describing female beauty.  

There are two areas of difficulty.  One, there are too few ratings, which don't allow for a lady who falls between, say between Attractive and Really Hot.  Second, no standard exists.  So, if a lady is described as Nice, she's Nice compared to whom?

I, therefore, propose the Helen Scale.

Presumably, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.  If we assign her a value of 1H (one Helen), or 1000mH (one-thousand miliHelens), we can then apply this same scale to present day ladies.  Our most beautiful friends might then fall into the range of say, 800mH to 950mH, while those who are attractive in other ways would receive an appropriately lower value.

Anyway, it's just a thought.  I wonder if maybe I have just a little too much time on my hands.

i bet you hang all your socks on hangers and arrange them by color according to the spectrum.

admit it, and you'll feel better

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For Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and everyone has differing views of what they consider beautiful.  Any rating system would be bias on the outset for their can never be a clear cut criteria on what beauty is, their are just to many variances.

Lauren

approaching the speed of light, would she be more or less beautiful.  Would she be more beautiful if she was in the spaceship having just bbbjcim (LOL, grin).

Unfortunately I don't have a standard, it seems like at least every month I see some new woman is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.  Makes each day worth looking foward to.

And I definitely have too little to do at this particular moment.

Interesting, but beauty will always be partly in the eyes of the beholder, or the mirror, or photoshop dude.
I've never seen a true to life painting of Helen of Troy.
A Helen at my junior high school gave execellent head and swallowed, but was maybe  8-8.5.

You do have a bit too much time.
Maybe you could develop a four-dimensional 1 to 1000 blow job scale.

... or Halle Berry for that matter?  

in all seriousness, i think having half-integers would help. sometimes a whole-integer jump, up-or-down, seems too uncertain to warrant ... and anyone who says men can't judge beauty with that kinda precision is most likely not a man!  

i want to see all 10's on TER knocked down to a 9.5

there IS an "afterlife" you know ... or so they tell me!

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
  -George Santayana- American Philospher

" The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."
     _George Sand- Novelist

...and the poster at utopiaguide.com swiped it from a book called Merry Gentlemen (and one lady) by J. Bryan III.  

Loverofwomen, you oughta give credit where credit is due.

A buddy of mine and I were talking, and he brought up the germ of this idea.  As we talked, it felt like we put it together ourselves.  I had no idea he must have seen it elsewhere.  Had I known, I'd have certainly given the credit.  My apologies to all.