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Naked: Athletic should be the new black
By Anne Fitzgerald, Elastic Waist, on Wed Jul 9, 2008 10:01am PDT
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We're built, as humans, to choose an ideal--this is the ideal job, this is the ideal partner, this is the ideal car and house and life, and this is what we need to aspire to. Ideals make me tired. They so often are an unattainable extreme, raising the bar to such an impossible height that ordinary human beings--perfectly wonderful, perfectly average people--end up breaking their necks when they try to scale those heights. Average is a bad word, and perfection is something that is not just nice to achieve, but something to which we are supposed to dedicate ourselves. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (9) | Blog
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The Laws of Attraction: Four experts reveal what "sexy" means
By Allure Magazine, on Wed Jul 9, 2008 9:43am PDTAllure asked four experts from wildly diverging fields what the word “sexy” means to them. Check out this month's issue of Allure for more from these experts and discover ways to make desirability attainable and down-to-earth.
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Birds do it, bees do it—and anthropologists explain why we do it. Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, shares his research and insights on what human sexiness is really all about. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (5) | Blog
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What is sexy?
By Jessica Matlin, Allure Daily Beauty Reporter, on Tue Jul 1, 2008 2:37pm PDTOne of my favorite stories in Allure's July issue is called "The Laws of Attraction," an eye-opening take on what sexiness really is. As it turns out, being perceived as sexy has little to do with how you actually look—it's about your attitude, how you feel within your skin and how you own it. Like, some women feel their va-va-voomiest in a housecoat and bunny slippers, while some feel totally unsexy even when they're wearing a killer pair of three-inch heels and a curve-hugging new dress. Read More »
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