| pokoko said:
Well, to be honest, society and the environment pretty much have children conditioned relative to what is and is not attractive pretty early. Finding skinny girls attractive, for instance, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously, thin would mean poor, which is the opposite of now. Also, tanned would indicate outdoor labor, so pale skin was considered more attractive. Conditioning is very powerful, a lot more powerful than people realize. You can make pretty much anyone like anything, or hate anything, by association. That's why those hair club ads have the person looking sad in the "before" picture and happy in the "after" picture, to create an association between those concepts. One of the more famous psychological experiments produced boot fetishes in men who did not have that fetish previously. |
Actually, no ...
How men rank the attractiveness of women based on body weight generally follows a normal distribution with the mean being (essentially) the ideal weight and body fat levels in terms of health.
While Venus in this image may not be the stick thin model that gay-men and women prefer from fashion magazines, she does have the proportions of a woman at a very healthy body weight; and her defined abs indicate that she is not significantly over-weight.
