Do looks make a big difference for us?

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Both books include pictures as well since that's your standard.
And you're creating a strawman since I never argued those representations didn't exist. They certainly do, but you can't deny there were fat women depicted in art either, well you could, but you'd have to deny every fertility goddess and claim Peter Paul Rubens never existed. 2nd, the ancients rarely depicted women outside of fertility gods, most representations were actually male, it's ~5 to 1 in ancient Greece. Also of note, your 'sexuality is purely biology' argument completely glosses over those cultural aesthetics and changes in them over time. Example: look at the few ancient Greek statues left and notice the male's penis is actually very small. That's because aesthetically the Greeks viewed a small penis as preferential to a large one. They also have larger shoulders/chest and smaller quad muscles than normal if we're looking at proportions, they also had rounder faces than the pronounced jawlines of today. Those were what were aesthetically pleasing to the Greeks, that's sexually what they wanted in males, and it has nothing to do with biology but their culture. As for bias of the two works I presented you, sure there's bias because there's bias in everything, but those two works have a hell of lot less bias than you're going to find on a reddit post with no peer review, editing, and to be honest logic.

Again, you’re too baised on many levels.

First of all, penises of ancient Greek statuses are not “very small” medically wise, they are of natural sizes, they are “small” because they are in flaccid state!! *facepalm”.
They are of normal size for Mediterranean population (who tend to have “grower” penises, meaning small as flaccid but about 3x bigger as erected) - 80% of males worldwide are growers.

Flaccid penises tend to be much smaller than their erected state, and those statues were not about sex.

And the shape of their faces don’t look that different than greek guys today. Of course they would look different to you. Hello? They were Greeks, not Americans.

But obviously your brain is too used to porn where males are always depicted as fully erected and big 100% of the time. Nude art is not porn.

Secondly, take a look at Priapus, the ancient Greek god of fertility, and at Satyr, a greek mythological species known for high sex drive. Check their statues and tell me if you think they have small penises.

Not every thing written in a some book must be true, which may be written by some biased author who may influenced by a certain agenda (ie. feminist agenda)- do some critical thinking yourself beyond books based on tangible evidences.

There's no use communicating with you, you're so set in your biases and refuse to even acknowledge evidence outside your comfort zone that there's nothing to be gained here. I don't concede this argument in any way shape or fashion, merely moving on because it's not worth my time.

Believing that beauty is somehow socially constructed, is pretty damn ridiculous.