It's not enough to be thin, women now want muscles
The' Magro is beautiful', once shaken the silhouettes of models, miss and divas from the cover. An refrain that has made the demand for diets, treatments and strategies to get to show off a line of sylphs impenetrable over the years. Well, now thin it's no longer beautiful: the female body you like most must also be tonic and muscular. To certify it a study conducted by Frances Bozsik of the University of Missouri in Kansas City, published in' Sex Roles'. To reveal the paradigm shift, the examination of more than a decade of winners in the Miss USA competition, as well as a survey among students using two photos of the same model, with or without muscles (in the second case the images were correct to the PC).
Well, the examination of the bikini images of the beauty queens who triumphed in the American contest from 1999 to 2013 was shown to 78 female students who judged and voted for them. On the basis of their judgement, the team decided that the last winners not only impersonated the ideal of thinness, but had also become more muscular than the champions of the recent past, and liked more. In the second study, researchers then played with photoshop, showing 64 students pairs of photographs portraying 14 models. Also in this case the' judges' showed that they preferred the' lean and tonic' version to the' simple lean' one. "There has been a shift in the ideal feminine image from the simple slenderness to the appearance of a good muscular shape,"explains Bozsik, a change in which a certain role could be played by the post aspirations spread on social media.