The beauty and the beastly …

… You Tell ’Em, Duke Porn Star. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Another person is always a Thou, because she has a face; she foredooms every effort to reduce her to an It, because objects do not have faces. Her face establishes her uniqueness, her irreducibility to interests or explanatory context, her being-in-herself. You may perhaps account for her behavior, but you can never account for her face.