Twitter recently took a break from body positivity (and the harassment that started the movement) to make fun of what has been hailed the "ideal male body." It all started when radio host Stephen ...

Artificial intelligence has its own idea of what the perfect human body should look like. A new study by The Bulimia Project, a Brooklyn, New York-based website that publishes content and research ...

What happens when social media becomes a little more real? Does it affect how people feel about their own bodies?

In a welcome turn from its usual discussions of the shortcomings of the female form, Twitter spent the day analyzing the “ideal male body” thanks to a great and weird new meme. And, boy, have I ...

How can social media contribute to a more diverse concept of body shapes and physical attractiveness? The answer is body-positive content. On social media platforms, slim and fit bodies are often over ...

Key Points: People often think that beauty ideals are fixed and unchangeable, but new research suggests that they depend on the people around you. Representation of all body types may therefore lead ...

There's been a meme making its way around the internet as of late, and it's one that taps into an unspoken trend among millennial men. The illusive trend I speak of is the millennial male's insecurity ...

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, American artist Charles Dana Gibson illustrated the Gibson Girl who was an amalgamation of American femininity and served as a beauty standard for everyday women.

Turn on your television and flip through the channels. Look at the cover pages of magazines, or open any social media application, what do you see? The glorification of the “ideal” body image. Dating ...

If we go back far enough in time and look at sculptures created by ancestral humans populations, we get a very different picture of what the ideal body for women may have looked like. Our ancestors ...