Talk:Rarity/@comment-29017069-20170207010459/@comment-27161581-20170207025929

Disagree with the possibly of hounding, the distribution of male ponies to female ponies is terrible for the mares. If you factor in screen time and overall relevance it gets worse. Furthermore almost all of the decent stallions are already taken.

Taking social standing into order, Rarity is looking to move up in social class, however due to the lopsided distribution of mares to stallions, a prospective stallion would look above his social class, since there are available mares. The converse, where a mare could socially move upwards through such a relationship is far less likely since there are more mares than stallions, and so stallions can afford to be more selective than mares, especially around Rarity's age and social class.

For in-show reasons, Rarity is a pony of grace, or at least focused on such an ideal, and there is a pretty clear defining line between a pony that is beautiful, and a pony that bears herself in a beautiful manner. Rarity is focused on the second one, and so any kind of skin deep beauty is a non-factor, especially in Rarity's desired social class.

There are plenty other reasons why Rarity is not bombarded by visitors, some of which I will quickly list for brevity's sake:
 * Distance from major social functions
 * Relative size of Ponyville.
 * Differing culture between Ponyville and Equestria's elite (why Rarity doesn't have local visitors)
 * Social Inaccessibility due to Princess Twilight/Saving the World