I may be wrong but from what I remember there were drugs and treatments to keep one from aging as we do here on earth. And as for "pretty", the way I read the books, Gorean men found beauty in all females. It was the ones that desired to be pleasing and had true slave heat, even over those of greater beauty, that fetched the higher price at the markets. This may be my female perspective but that is how I viewed it. Just my two copper tarn coins worth. *grin* ~bliz~