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  2. Body image - Wikipedia

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    Venus with a Mirror (1555) by Titian. Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. [1] [2] The concept of body image is used in several disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural and feminist studies; the media also often uses the term.

  3. Sociology of the body - Wikipedia

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    According to Thomas Laqueur, [1] prior to the eighteenth century the predominant model for a social understanding of the body was the "one sex model/one flesh model".It followed that there was one model of the body which differed between the sexes and races, for example, the vagina was simply seen as a weaker version of the penis and even thought to emit sperm.

  4. Height discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Height is related to body image and does have an effect on the cognitive process. A study done involving spatial attention showed that people who were unhappy with their height were prone to looking quicker to short-associated words and tried to avoid attention to tall connected words because they could illicit negative feelings.

  5. More men are getting breast reductions. What to know about ...

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    However, a general rise in male plastic surgery and in conversations about body image among men appear to be the chief reason for the 23,831 gynecomastia surgeries for men recorded for 2023.

  6. TODAY/AOL 'Ideal to Real' body image survey results

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    José Andrés and Martha Stewart are hosting a new cooking show with a dramatic twist

  7. Toxic masculinity - Wikipedia

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    Some authors associated with the mythopoetic men's movement have referred to the social pressures placed upon men to be violent, competitive, independent, and unfeeling as a "toxic" form of masculinity, in contrast to a "real" or "deep" masculinity that they say men have lost touch within modern society.

  8. Spornosexual - Wikipedia

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    Jamie Hakim's research, "The Spornosexual: the affective contradictions of male body-work in neoliberal digital culture", was published in the Journal of Gender Studies in 2016. [20] Hakim writes that young men defining their value through their body is a response to the effects of austerity on them since 2008, when the ability to create value ...

  9. TikTokers are getting vulnerable about their self-image with ...

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    The post TikTokers are getting vulnerable about their self-image with the ‘Blur your insecurities’ trend: ‘my whole existence would be blurred’ appeared first on In The Know.