Healthy lifestyle/Physical attractiveness
Physical attractiveness means the different physical characteristics that different people consider to be beautiful in other humans. Physical attractiveness can also include sexual attractiveness, ideas about beauty, proportions, muscular development, and appearance.
Physical attractiveness means different things to different people and to different human cultures. There is no single definition of physical attractiveness.
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In men, physical attractiveness may include slim waist[1] and height.[2] Female physical attractiveness might include youth,[3] waist-hip ratio,[4] mid upper arm circumference,[5] body mass proportion[6] and facial symmetry.[7][8]
Ancient icons of physical attractiveness
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Heracles, the greatest hero of Greek mythology, and his child, Louvre. -
Hermes, an Olympian god and the patron of athletics and sports. -
Nymph with a shell. Marble, Roman copy of the 1st century CE.
References
edit- ↑ Physical attractiveness: The influence of selected torso parameters" in Archives of Sexual Behavior Volume 10, No 1 1981
- ↑ Pierce C. A. 1996; Cunningham, M.R. 1990; Pawlowski B, Dunbar RI, Lipowicz A 2000
- ↑ Buss, David (2003) [1994]. The Evolution of Desire (hardcover) (in English) (second ed.). New York: Basic Books. pp. 51-54.
- ↑ Singh, D 1993
- ↑ Girl power; Human evolution.(Mothers, malnutrition and daughters) Economist (US), The, May, 22, 2003
- ↑ Tovee MJ, Reinhardt S, Emery JL, Cornelissen PL. 1998
- ↑ Berscheid and Reis, 1998
- ↑ Fink, B. & Penton-Voak, I.S. (2002)