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Likewise, aesthetic judgments may be culturally conditioned to some extent.

Victorians in Britain often saw African sculpture as ugly, but just a few decades later, Edwardian audiences saw the same sculptures as being beautiful.

Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to desirability, perhaps even to sexual desirability.

Thus, judgments of aesthetic value can become linked to judgments of economic, political, or moral value.

In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.