There's a great Sci-Fi short story by Ted Chiang called, "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about a reversible procedure that inhibits the ability for

There's a great Sci-Fi short story by Ted Chiang called, "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about a reversible procedure that inhibits the ability for people to detect prettiness 'calliagnosia'. They talk about 'lookism'. It does an interesting job exploring what this would mean and the good and bad associated with it (which I think Ted Chiang always does a great job of). It's definitely worth reading.