Help with body image

[redrhodie]

Great post, staceysue! Thanks so much for that! It made my day.

I wish we could get young girls to see more "real" female bodies, because I suspect that will help. I wonder if the body image of the EU woman is better than ours in the US because of their more relaxed attitude to nudity?

[staceysue]

Great post, staceysue! Thanks so much for that! It made my day.

I wish we could get young girls to see more "real" female bodies, because I suspect that will help. I wonder if the body image of the EU woman is better than ours in the US because of their more relaxed attitude to nudity?

Yeah - in the US the only people who are relaxed about nudity are those who are in the top 1%.

Kind of a little tangent here - my nephew was caught looking at porn on the internet and my brother had a very good talk with him about it. He told him it was a bad idea to do that because if he got it in his head that that's what women really look (and behave) like, it would have a negative effect on his relationships later on. He made it clear to him that real women are not like that, and he'd better learn to love real women.

Not that we should be worried about whether or not men think we're good sex objects . . . but many of usare worried about that and we have to be realistic.