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Many women spend much time and moneyhavingtheir fingernails painted and decorated. Toenails, too,quiteoften. Is there evidence that young men find this attractive?

Regular readers will know, I hope, how much this columnappreciatescorrespondence. It’s you, the little people, who makethis allworthwhile, I say, tearfully clutching my Oscar. So,believe mewhen I say that it does cause me pain to criticise thequestions Ireceive, but, as celebrities are so fond of saying thesedays, Imust live my truth. No one ever said being a journalist waseasy.So, David, if I seem harsh in my reply, do not take itpersonally.You are merely the Watergate to my Woodward andBernstein, and Imust expose what’s really going on here.
If nail salons have to exploit workers to stay profitable,they'velost my business

The slightly awkward thing, though, is that I’ve dealt withthisparticular issue – why women do a thing even if men don’t finditattractive – in this column many times before. And yet,strangely,it seems that not every single man on the planet hasreceived mytruth. Why, only last week, a chap on a different, farinferiornewspaper wrote, in regards to fashion’s fondness forskinnymodels: “They are not attractive to men or, surely, to women.Whythen does this continue?” It’s hard not to enjoy that whatthismale columnist seems to find most outrageous about extremelythinmodels is that they don’t turn him on. Fingers crossed thisbecomesa running series in which we find what shape of women reallydoesget his engine going! (Ideally silent ones, presumably, giventhathe apparently couldn’t be bothered to ask a single woman forherview on the subject, but was instead reliably guided by hisownhormones.) So, as you can see, I have to keep repeating thistruthover and over.