Actually, that piece of dialogue might have used an intro, as it was not really meant to illustrate that last comment…

In the looks department, Mastroianni was doing more than all right (when airhead Anita Ekberg falls for him in the movie, the selling point is not his witty lines or his existential angst)…

Granted: he was more about classy italian suits and old-school borsalino hats… and in no scene does he appear wearing a man-skirt and sporting an oily freshly shaved torso. But then again, he’d also have been less likely to entirely snub said aching women in favor of his hunky, similarly-shaved, male co-star…