It's kind of scary to think back on old porn from the 60's and 70's were the people were just like average then you get to the 80's, the time of hypercapitalism, and suddenly everyone's all plastic.
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
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.