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Originally Posted by MargaretR
The current fad for lusting after skinny women is unhealthy.
The majority who fit the criterion are either anorexic or underage.
Renaissance art shows that voluptuous women were fashionable and desirable in the past.
The Victorian and Edwardian method of achieving a small waist injured internal organs.
The current use of stretchy 'body shapers' is causing restricted blood flow and nerve damage.
I reckon nowt to torturing yourself to fit the trendy shape.
The men who are attracted only by appearances are not really worth attracting, and will look to replace you if you don't keep up the appearance they expect you to maintain - how immature of them.  |
I totally agree with you, but who's dafter?
Men, or the women who buy into what's currently considered to be attractive?
It's a billion dollar industry, which proves a lot do.
You're right, historically artists liked their female models with a bit of meat on their bones.
Mind you, they also gave their adult males infantile genitals, and that's never really taken off with the masses, as an aesthetic bodily ideal.
Dieting to achieve what's considered an ideal body shape is a relatively new phenomenon. In the past a buxom figure generally equated with good health, in times when life expectancy wasn't very high.
Marilyn Monroe, with her ample bosom, curvy hips, and wiggling bum, was a size sixteen, and positively exuded female sex appeal.
Today she'd be considered medically overweight.
Strange old world.