The porn fairy of the woods used to leave out magazines for boob men and the implants some of those women had were ludicrous. Not to mention every guy was roided out.
Glad there's been a push in society to be accepting again of people and their body types. Even if porn today still falls into the same tropes of the 80's and 90's.
i remember my grandma showing me a film she liked from the sixties. it was a noir thing that included a scene in a seedy club. teenage me was astounded to see that the strippers were bigger than me. they had double hips and wide thighs and looked like people i'd seen in real life - and yet they were painted as desirable. i wasn't even larger than average, but i'd just never seen anyone that looked remotely like me in films/tv aside from as a joke.
the degree to which conventional beauty standards (despite often being considered objective) have changed is wild, and how much my reaction saddened my grandma is why i started trying to be nicer about myself. women like us have existed forever and always will
i wasn't even larger than average, but i'd just never seen anyone that looked remotely like me in films/tv aside from as a joke.
It's gross how western beauty standards have warped people perceptions.
That’s been the beauty standard in Latin America for a very long time. We’ve managed to avoid the hyper-skinny look, at least Central America has.
It’s weird looking back at the early 2000s when Shakira in her “hips don’t lie” music video was one of the first examples of a curvy woman to really gain mainstream popularity.
Just a reminder that Sir Mix-a-Lot both preached body positivity and passed the Bechdel Test.
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He did and I guess the shakira example is very recent because there were many others before her. She’s just one of the big examples from the 2000’s
It's not even just plastic, the type of gear a lot of guys get on to get bodies like The Rock is coming home to roost in terms of the damage it does to the body. There's this older sci-fi film called Yor Hunter from the Future released in '83, right at the tail end of what you're talking about. B-movie. Not worth watching unless you like so bad it's good stuff. But you can see in the promotional photos what was "big" and muscular looked like during that time:
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Not to brag, but I have comparable measurements from about a decade of program lifting. I still have people regularly surprised I've been lifting as long as I have because I don't look like a professional wrestler. I look like Yor. Because I'm natty and mostly lifting for fun and health. And now I see teenagers getting on chemicals while their bodies are still developing because they want to look like what they see in Marvel films and it's really sad.
The Marvel movie note cannot be overstated. Just look at Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in The Wolverine (2013) vs X-Men (2000). Being yoked is the prerequisite for superheroes now
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Jackman is especially interesting because when he had that body in The Wolverine, I remember reading articles about how he was happy he got into the 1,000 lbs Club while training for that film. It's powerlifting term for when your one rep max on your bench, squat and deadlift all add up to over 1,000 lbs. I remember that being my lifting goal when I read about that and when I hit it, I looked a lot more like X-Men Wolverine for sure haha It is surprisingly easy to hit the 1,000 lbs club and still look like a pretty normal guy.
Just goes to show how practical strength and Marvel looks don't always have a lot of overlap. Those lats, traps and low body fat do most of the work for The Wolverine Jackman, rather than the quads, posterior chain and chest that do most of the work on powerlifting moves.
Yeah, it's easy to see how these 17 year olds that love going to see the latest blockbuster with their buddies and then think that's what strong looks like and try to be Chris Hemsworth or something and when a half year or lifting doesn't give it to them, they start juicing or something.
Yeah a body like that became pretty standard for porn
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On a sidenote, since you brought up Yor...
YORRR'S WORLD! HEEE'S THE MANNN!
Seriously, that theme song goes hard.
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It’s even infested amateur porn. Onlyfans now has everyday people pumping themselves with roids and plastic. It used to be the place you could look for more authentic porn that wasn’t made in a sketchy studio.
I'd really love to read a sociology report on porn from a marxist.
Every time that happens they get castigated for being a SWERF, even when they're a sex worker themself
But you see, Ms. Detective, you missed once crucial fact. My duck is throbbing right now and I'm a good person. A good person's dick wouldn't get hard from bad things, now would it?
Seriously, people are far too attached to their treats, especially when it's porn.
Personal interest, higher rate of transphobes among people critical of the industry, and a lack of political education in feminist class analysis among Marxists are at least three reasons I can think of.
My area has a local toyshop like that, having an emphasis for women and the queer community. Being a bit of a kinkster is suddenly more safe and friendly once you excise the patriarchal elements prominent in so many shops. Hell, we had two, but some protesters were outside one that was basically for married vanilla couples. Same energy as Christians ignoring all the devil shit in Yu Gi Oh because they blew their load on Pokemon.
It's really obvious how 'looking good' to some people = 'an expensive look'
Not just plastic surgery, those massive sunglasses too where I can't see your face, am I supposed to find that hot
Yeah, capitalism drilled into the heads of people in the west that expensive = attractive.
Let me be clear, these titties are too big to failWe cannot let them sag, in fact, we should make them even bigger
Hexbear: we proudly protect our trans users
Also hexbear: LOL PUMPED FULL OF PLASTICFuck off.
I don't mean to come off as disrespectful towards trans comrades, I'm just commenting on how fucked up it was at the time. If you think I'm being transphobic I'll delete the thread.
I don't think it's transphobic at all, but it does make me feel a little bad about the top surgery I'm going to be getting here in the next few months. I wasn't aware people weren't exactly welcoming of implants.
You def should not feel bad at all. Be proud of them.
I think in here it's discussing how studios almost required porn actors to have plastic surgery
I wasn't aware people weren't exactly welcoming of implants.
If it helps a trans comrade then I'm for them
I'm probably just particularly sensitive today. But I do think critiques of pornography that focus on people's bodies is pretty gross in general.
No worries. I don't really have the vocab to express what I'm thinking which is "it's fucked up porn producers wanted women to do that to their bodies to sell products". I guess is more in the vein what I was trying to say.
The issue is that pornography portrays an infeasible standard for most people's bodies. When perfection is the norm, nobody's good enough.
It's about how beauty standards in porn tend to err towards ridiculous over time and how it hurts sex worker's bodies and viewers self perceptions, not how plastic surgery is inherently bad. Plastic surgery is not bad and is in fact cool as hell.
