Physical attractiveness is the degree to which a person’s physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful.The term often implies sexual attractiveness or desirability, but can also be distinct from either.

WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING A MATE, A FEMALE PENGUIN knows better than to fall for the first creep who pulls up and honks. She holds out for the fittest suitor available — which in Antarctica means one chubby enough to spend several weeks sitting on newly hatched eggs without starving to death.

“It’s something we have internalized, and it’s propagated by everyone since we still have this colonial hang-up that white is better, white is wealth, white is someone

Forty-one women of color share stories about diversity, inclusion, and the politics of skin color in beauty.

As the US has grown to be one of the most powerful countries, our society’s standards of “beauty” have been thrust into other parts of the world through globalization.

The Hollywood Pudgy trope as used in popular culture. Many people in real life have body image issues that lead them to obsess about food and think of …

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, when I was and naïve, I had hoped that beauty standards for women would broaden to that of men from the 1990’s and earlier.

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Artist Creates Life-Size Sculptures Of Women Inspired By Renaissance Art, Reveals The Beauty Of Female Form

The digital age has brought with it wonderful advantages in all aspects of people’s lives, but it has also created unexpected troubles, one of which is a detrimental change in society’s perception of beauty.