The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

Body shapes in animated female characters have become more complex and varied in the last several years, according to a new study by University of Connecticut graduate researcher Rebecca Rowe. Rowe, a ...

Mathematicians have discovered that there is no exact formula for the “perfect” female body. A study recently published in Scientific Reports challenges long-standing assumptions about the most ...

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More/less masculine body shapes (Not the actual stimuli used in this study) Source: Arash Emamzadeh Categorizing human physique is nothing new. Decades ago, William Sheldon categorized bodies into ...

With social media at play, there is a strong level of pressure now more than ever to fit certain beauty standards and body types. Luckily, there are women who are also on social media who own their ...

Why do so many celebrity women look over their shoulder when posing? There is an old saying that some men are more attracted to a woman’s breasts, while other men are more engrossed by their derriere.