While there are some universal features of attractiveness, standards of beauty vary by culture, and even by time period within the same culture. If you watch movies and TV shows from the 1950s and ...

For as long as most of us can remember, the idea of the "ideal body" has hovered in the cultural imagination like a beacon — beautiful, alluring, and yet impossibly out of reach. From glossy magazines ...

In movies, on billboards, and across social media, the ideal male body is often presented as a sort of marble statue. Massive shoulders, razor-sharp abs, and barely a trace of fat. It’s a look ...