woah...hot button! I think beauty pagents are demoralizing to women, right up there with prostitution, strip clubs, ect...
What happens upstairs or downstairs is no concern of yours. With that said, I must be doing something right to keep him around for 16 years.

(We dated for 5 years before getting married.)
Just caught your added link.
BTW: I would never degrade my husband and call him "my old man"