Mass media has popularized a notion of the "perfect body" to sell "cures" for manufactured flaws that result in body image disorders for many women.
Fueled primarily by mass media, popular culture promotes the myth of the “perfect” body, an idealized standard of body size and appearance impossible for 95 percent of the population to attain. The motive is purely commercial, a campaign to market products and services that promise to correct, minimize or disguise the inevitable differences between real people and the air-brushed, glossy images of perfection that grace advertising media and the pages of popular magazines...
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TEXT: Naturist Social Culture and Lifestyle
