Beauty, Bodies, Butts and Bosoms: What is Considered Sexy? What is Not?

Different cultures, different body shapes. What parts of the body are being focused on? What parts of the body are sexy? Each ethnicity seems to have a different focus. This dates back to cavemen.

The Black culture has songs about a womans behind. The line in the song and the title say "Baby got Back" referring to a large behind. In Africa many of the cultures love a large behind. In some cultures large breasts and bellies indicated fertility. In Asian countries feet were bound, tiny feet bound to the point that the woman could not walk. This was linked to elegance and status, it meant you were wealthy enough you need not walk. Long, long claw like nails were grown under the same premise. You had servants you needn't use your hands or feet. In our culture, in Victorian times women's dresses had bustles, simulating a large rump. Hour glass figures were a look. Dressing in these long dresses with huge bustles was a status symbol as well. You couldn't be doing chores if you were dressed this way. ou were elite. You had status. The Marilyn Monroe era returned to this hour glass figure.

Clothing and make up all reflect what part of the body is the new attraction. Flappers were stick straight and would bind their breasts. Twiggy reflected this look and seemed to herald the emaciated, coke head, druggy , Anorexic body and the focus on being stick thin. Women boobbed their hair, again a boyish look . One year it's red lips that are in, the next it's whitish pink. Smokey eyes, natural eyes, Cleopatra black lined eyes. The look in make up and body part appreciation is always changing.Body parts are painted to draw a mate. Lips are colored, eyes played up in a dramatic way to lure a mate. Certain cultures paint their bodies Now, we have tattooing becoming a mainstream look. Another way to draw attention to your body. In nature the male is highly colored to draw a female. in humans its reversed.

Ubangis would put plate like stretchers in their lower lip until they had a plate shaped lower lip. Other tribes wore rings on their necks adding the rings as their growth continued making for very long necks. These were signs of beauty and status in these tribes. Hawaiians had tribal tattoos to add to their ferocity when they had to fight. Many cultures tattoo. Tattoos send a message.

Breast enhancement, liposuction, lip enhancement, nose jobs,eye lifts, face lifts, pectoral muscle implants, calf implants. It seems our culture will stop at nothing to enhance or reduce whatever part they feel has to meet our ever changing beauty concept. Angelina Jolie was teased as a child because she had huge lips, now Brittany Spears and other stars are having their lips enhanced because large, puffy lips are now a thing of beauty..

Models are expected to be long, lean, leggy with a smaller chest unless they are Victoria's Secret models. Our culture likes large baby like eyes and small noses. Again, the large eye is the baby eye. We then add lashes and lots of shadow to make the eyes look bigger. The rail thin models have become an issue in some countries. England now says the models cannot be emaciated. When the model is extremely thin the model's body is like a hanger showing off the clothing and not breaking the line of the design.Good for the clothing not for the models.

I'm sure everyone has heard of Chubby Chasers. There are men in our society that prefer really large women. It's the "more to love" theory I guess. I imagine they get into competition looking for the largest woman.If you relate this back to primitive times a large well fed person has the means to maintain their large body. They are successful hunter gatherers. A corpulent stomach in a man was considered a status symbol in some cultures again, size equaling success, wealth.

Part of the desire for bigger and better heralds back to maintaining your lineage by choosing strong breeding partners.Survival of the fittest. The bigger, stronger partner assures you bigger ,better, stronger offspring and better chances of survival of yourself and your litter. This permeats all cultures to some extent. Women go after the man with the most power to assure their place in society. Marrying for position and money harks back to the original breeding concept. If you are the mate of the Alpha Male you're babies will survive and you're line will often produce the next Alpha. It all links together, clothing, body paint, size of your breast, rump, lips, long or short hair or nails, big features, small features. They all send signals for mating, dating, and procreating.