MR_BOGAN wrote:
Concerning your first sentence, I think the hippie movement is a good example of how a social movement can change what people consider attractive. If there were more natural women in advertising and the media, I think people's perceptions would change. And I don't see how a woman who modifies her natural body be removing hair, wearing makeup and ill-fitting clothes would appear to be "healthier".
You can't change what people find attractive, like what haliphron said it is neurologically hard wired, babies respond better to more attractive people. I agree with you about how their needs to be more natural women in advertising, with the whole super skinny model thing, I believe men are more neurologially attracted to more curvy women.[/quote]
Which is why men like those little tittied, big bottomed gals in the Middle ages, or those fat gals of The Renaissance, or...wait, what's that about hard wiring? Actually, all these "likes" sound like trends...
Apparently, it's not as hard (hard, hehe) wired to like certain things as some thing. I think the "hardwiring" theory is just a rationalization for what is hot now. Who knows what'll be hot in fifty years? Could be anything.
I mean, Lillian Russel of the 19th century was considered one of THE sex icons...
And she weighed 250 pounds. Hm.