What is Sexy?

I believe that our popular culture regarding beauty and what "sexy" is is not at all healthy. The media is mainly at fault for this. Over the years, especially more recent years, the standard for beauty and being sexy has been set way too high. According to our class survey to be sexy a women must have large breasts, be skinny, have a pretty face, have great hair, have a nice butt, etc. Many women have only one of these features. Some have none. That does not my any means make the majority of our female population ugly. However, from a young age we've been bombarded by images on billboards, commercials, shows, movies and the internet of women who are "perfect." A generation of kids exposed to Pamela Anderson, "reality" shows, MTV, and Hugh Hefner's Girls Next Door. 99% of these women are not  naturally beautiful. The vast majority of them have had plastic surgery after plastic surgery. Botox injections. Pounds of makeup plastered on their faces. The media has told us what our standards as a culture are, and we have followed. As a country we are very shallow people. We focus way too much on physical appearance alone. But, this is because it's what we've been taught and it's hard to reverse things taught by a culture we've been emerged in all of our lives. I agree with Barbara Ehrenreich in her article 'Why Don't We Like The Human Body?'. She suggests "maybe we could start making friends with our bodies again. They need nurturance and care, but like any friend, they should be good for a romp now and then..." And it's true. Our bodies aren't meant to be pushed to it's limit with exercising and dieting. A little fun once in a while won't kill us. As a society it might even make us a little less miserable!