What?

• This is a review of the historical development & changes of what it means to be sexually attractive
• Focus: last century (20^th century - known as turbulent, violent with 2 world wars, high-velocity of change & sexual)
• Scope: observations & analysis of the lifestyles of various nationalities

Why do U do this? What's the intention?

• It is often said that to predict the future & understand the present situations, one has to look to the past for the roots
• At the turn of this brand new 21^st century (when we will pass the baton on to the next generation), shouldn't we look back on the last century?
• The present circumstances are full of media coverage (information age), democracy (distributed rights & obligations), technology (research & applications), mass interaction (networking of work & play) as well as detriments (weather volatility, depletion of resources & diseases)
• Scientifically, humans are the most sexually active animals with the sexual urge & activities greatly magnified due to our global domination, preoccupation with our basic primal instincts & the networking of cross-everything exchanges
• The last century was the most extreme compared to previous episodes of history
• Is this the trend to come? Would the extremes be magnified by our preoccupation with technology & freedom? How far can we go? Is this sustainable or exhaustive?

Overview of sex appeal

• Like many animals & plants (pollination), we are borne with the universally natural instinct to sexually attract & couple
• To be sexually appealing is to be attractive
• The media personifies attraction through entities like models, stars, singers & other personalities
• Sex sells: any commodity with culturally attractive people on its cover definitely appeals to the masses; Internet porn websites are the first to turn profits, realising the mass appeal to surfers who willing pay
• To those who have "it": many make use of it, some stars have commented that they do not know why they have it, they just have it
• Others work at it - purposefully & meticulously cultivate the sexually appealing appearances & assets through techniques like beauty habits, makeup & surgery
• Some others learn to make others sexy & reactively improve their own sex appeal
• Sexual appeal is not only about looks, but also assets, power & charisma of both men & women
• What is appealing may be perceived sexually - most stars & models make their names from activities without sex; in fact, politicians, generals & even sports stars & scholars can be sexually appealing due to their excellence in their domains, but people interpret that in the sexual fashion
• The sex appeal is not kept silently, but is amplified through the media - shows, movies & TV enable those who have it, work at it or just to want to talk about it to spread the seeds of sex appeal to the masses (note that the inventor of TV, Philo Farnsworth, was thoroughly against the use of TV as "there's nothing on it worthwhile")
• Through the enculturation of the mass coverage & social pressure as well as internal, bodily needs, sex appeal is a natural & dominant force; nobody can completely be devoid of it, neither does anybody naturally wish to do so
• The following are grouped like this:

1. Sex appeal of body parts
2. Dressings
3. Men
4. Neural
5. Surgery
6. Trend

Sex appeal of body parts

• Focus on women, as men find women appealing & women like to observe & compare themselves with their counterparts
• Legs:
• The women's legs are most exposed & enticing capital of the last century - we didn't get to see much legs in the all of the previous centuries
• The 1940's manufacture of nylon for stalkings & the 1960's popularity of the mini-skirts open up the sky of those silky legs of women to wows & ahs
• Innumerable accounts, correlation & experiences of the relationships between the legs & the sexual appeal of women pay dividend on the emphasis on legs
• Legs can be long/short, plumb/slender, textured/smooth, curvy/streamlined
• Legs give motion - women are liberated from confines of bound feet & petite tiptoeing; heels have lowered from astronomical levels, but are still high (which help to tighten the vaginal muscles due to muscle tension); abundant sex nerves in the feet & artists & publishers have been known to be obsessed with those quivering legs (more than the other parts)
• Hips, bums & waists:
• These are socially regarded as the child-bearing, sex appealing signatures of women
• According to research, a slim, curvy & proportioned waist & bum is the psychological definition of sex appeal of a woman
• Not surprisingly, many women who are not borne with it have adopted or invented various techniques to enhance the appeal of these parts - tightening of the waists by clothing & belts, massaging their bums, taking medications, walking in certain manners like twisting & turning in exaggerated fashion in order to increase the muscles on the hips & waists
• The bottoms of women are naturally full as a sign of fertility & storage of fats to be used during breastfeeding
• Taking drugs would only kill off sex drive & even fertility, as drugs are not designed for fertility (but this might be just what some want, as they interpret it as a form contraception)
• Busts:
• The breasts are the most celebrated & displayed of all women's parts besides the face which is the fundamental for daily living
• The attributes of size, shape, curvature, texture, robustness & proportion in relation to the rest of the body are regarded in varying degrees of valence by different peoples
• Besides the natural nurturing of the young, the breasts are massive sex appeals to men, obsessive to them & less in others
• Those with big busts either make full use of it or learn to handle them appropriately (some do not like flaw their assets, U know), while those with tiny ones either turn a blind eye (they focus on other aspects) or use various techniques to enhance the busty attributes (through nutrition, bra-uplifting enhancements & massaging - that is punching to bruise them up)
• Face:
• Finally, the face - the appearance that is the major sex appeal to most
• Even religious organisations have to uncover the face or portions, at least for looking
• The face is so important that the ancient people have already devised systems to observe facial attributes to relate to character & life (what a way to look & talk about someone's face with the backing & in the name of these systems)
• Some focus on the parts of the face like the eyes (the window to the soul), the lips (sexual arousal), the nose (correlation with the rest of the body) & the hair
• Others focus on the overall proportioning & fitness of the coherent whole of the individual parts with the overall facial or bone structures (as some like to call it)
• Some women & stars go for face surgery to enhance features (to match their media packaging), improve on deficiencies & lessen aging effects - techniques like makeup, face uplift & elastic holdup are invented & popularised

Dressing

• Clothes are invented for protection, warmth, tool bearing & hygiene
• The last century has amplified & expanded the meaning of clothes to the realm of sex appeal through personification of clothing
• It is said that clothes mark the end of modesty
• How true it is as stars play cat-and-mouse on the bed or anywhere else for that matter
• The whole process of choosing the type of clothes, wearing them, appearing in them in front of others & tantalizingly & seductively taking them off point to one thing only & only one thing - sex appeal
• Clothes are increasingly becoming objects & tools of sex appeal of people - both expressive & deprived
• New clothes are invented to cater to more specific demands of younger, sexually-active & economically-stronger customers (as society veers towards globalisation, consumerism & sexualisation)
• Everything from shoes (flashy, high-heeled, playful), stalkings & mini-skirts to exuberant designer clothes, super-bras, panties, makeup & "deadly" scarves
• Anything to improve & enhance the body parts for sex appeal (note that many are intended to be appealing, but are often interpreted sexually)

Neural

• If the body is full of sex hormones, testosterone & whatever sexual else, the brain is the control unit of all these natural built-in ingredients for sex appeal
• Research shows that the neural outputs or conclusions are the end-products (maybe, even by-products) of neural patterns that only at most a probability (chance) of linking up & connections - it might even be a chance that we are sex appealing
• Through thought (mind power in a way), sex appeal increases as some people work on making other feel sexy
• The power of attraction through seduction, charisma & money can be irresistible to some
• The rich & beautiful are lethal combinations
• Life on the edge like secret agents (007), mafia & the underground are appealing in the arousal of danger & excitement, but interpreted sexually

Men

• Due to the influx of women into the workforce since the last century (prompted by the shortage of labour in the world wars & political, social & economic changes), men have to compete not only amongst themselves, but also with women & what better way than to be appealing
• Attraction can be due to admiration, mutual feeling, friendship or sexuality
• Male sexuality has always been masculinity, the pillar of strength, the energy & thumping of vitality
• Men have become attracted to bodybuilding, action stars, superman & manly attributes - composure, appearance, deep voice, strength, volcanic chest & stomach donuts
• Even facials are becoming popular amongst men as they strive for youthfulness
• But loss of hair seems to be on the rise (in fact, masturbation or the exhaustion of sexual energies kills the vulnerable roots of hair)
• Some extremists have taken to medication & drugs to boost vitality & macho image, but pay attention that this is the leading cause of infertility & reduction of sex drive (that ironically kills off the appeal that started this cycle initially)

Surgery

• It is widely-known that Michael Jackson has his entire face remodeled by cosmetic facial surgery, & how his face degenerated since then
• Facial surgery has been touted as the rejuvenation of youth & appeal - deformities can be corrected, enhancements made & corrections performed
• This is done on any part of the face that the customer desires or the patient requires - nose, eyes (lids & brows), cheeks, ears, lips & head structure
• Skin can be pulled, nourished, massaged or replaced for desired appealing appearance & sensation

Trend

• The trend that can be observed from this overview of sex appeal is the following:

1. Slimmer, slenderer
2. Lighter, less weight
3. More skinny
4. More active: in activities
5. Looser clothing: freedom of movement (& undressing)
6. More activities towards sex appeal

Last words?

• Beauty is much desirable & at the same time abused notion, whether it is fragile, passionate, elegant, sexy or flair
• For without beauty & sex appeal, where would we be?
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