The pursuit of the “perfect” body has long been linked to significant distress and eating disorders. Despite this, social media platforms promote unrealistic beauty standards, fueling a relentless ...

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 ...

The essay 'The Nazi Body. The Contained Body', written by filmmaker Nayra Sanz Fuentes, addresses how National Socialism used image and cinema to shape a disciplined, aesthetic, and power-submissive ...

Sometimes men defer harder conversations to women and publicly, uncomfortable discourse often follows the same trajectory. Body image, unrealistic standards, the pressure to look a certain way and the ...

Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing ...

Going to a big-budget studio movie these days often means taking in relentless depictions of the idealized human form. Fit, slim young people dominate the screen, no matter where you look. And ...