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Why Are We So Obsessed With Mugshot Hotties?

On June 18, a photo of a very handsome man was posted on the Web. It wasn’t intended to “break the Internet Kardashian-style, but that’s pretty much what happened, if only on a slightly smaller scale. Within 48 hours, the portrait garnered 62,000 “Likes” on Facebook and became an online spectacle. Today the Like count is up to almost 102,000, and the photo is still attracting comments. But thousands of pictures of highly attractive people are posted online every day, and no news articles are written about most of them—so

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