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The weight of bodies: the scales of fatness vary from era to era, not to mention person to person.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The weight of bodies: the scales of fatness vary from era to era, not to mention person to person.(attitudes)

Article Excerpt
Let's talk about nude women--I don't mean in any prurient sense, this is not that kind of magazine--but the manner in which the concept of female beauty has evolved over the centuries. Fundamentally, we are talking weight, the simple distribution of all too solid flesh, for frankly that seems to be the main factor. And the scale, or if you like, scales of that fatness obviously varies from generation to generation, not to mention person to person. What some would call pleasingly plump, others would term grossly overweight. This brings me, being a prisoner of my gender, with no particular reluctance, to naked ladies and why they were painted that way.

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