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- From: danb@zx.qsp.UUCP (Daniel Benbenisty)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
- Message-ID: <6028@maserati.qsp.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:21:53 GMT
- References: <C16EsB.ME7@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1993Jan21.162830.15905@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <ewright.727736220@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.727736220@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >
- >In that case, "physiology" must change very rapidly indeed. Even
- >a brief study of history will show that there are enormous changes
- >in what is considered physically attractive. During the Italian
- >Rennaissance, the ideal woman was quite rotund by today's standards.
- >In China, up until the beginning of this century, women bound their
- >feet to make them appear smaller and more attractive. In the United
- >States, just 20 years ago, it was generally accepted that women should
- >be soft, rather than the "hard bodies" popular today. Muscles on women
- >were considered unattractive.
-
- I read somewhere that there is a group of South Pacific islanders (?)
- who consider it attractive to have no teeth - they knock them all out!
-
- Actually, I imagine those chicks give pretty good blow jobs.
-
- Perhaps, in general, attractiveness is defined by whatever the wealthiest
- people happen to look like. Or perhaps attractiveness is defined by whatever
- conforms to peoples' notions of what a healthy person should look like.
- For example, during the Renaissance, getting enough food to even GET fat
- was probably dependent on more wealth than many people had; also, in an era
- of starvation and plagues which wasted away the body, being plump looked
- "healthy." Today, being lean and muscular may be a sign of adequate leisure
- time to exercise, and/or adequate funds for a health club membership; also,
- it seems to conform to the modern notion of health.
-
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- Daniel Benbenisty Guitarist for EARWURM
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