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Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing

Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing

Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing
15 March 2026

They tell young men how worthless they are.. then offer themselves up as the solution.

"They sell courses on how to increase your sexual market value (SMV) - basically a measurement of how attractive you are according to their scale."

The higher your SMV, he explains, the more likely you are to have sex with a woman. Looksmaxxing, to a certain degree, becomes a way to climb the attractiveness ladder. If a woman doesn't want you after all that then either you haven't done enough self-improvement or it's their fault, as the logic goes.

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