I always have thought the opposite...people were more attractive in the past. Watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and try to concentrate on the movie rather than the physical perfection of Liz Taylor and Paul Newman. No surgeries or filters needed... The pictures of my great great ancestors give off unique and preternatually beauty, no veneers...just a wholesome, unique and unreplicatable perfection. The food was better, the water cleaner, and only the healthiest or most resourced persons survived childhood in the past. Often, this shows up in something that you rarely see in a world of enhancements limited by the mind.