Culture and media of many forms are what often inform the periphery of our attraction. It is another form of determinism.
Thus, in Rubens day (see above) women who were, to our eyes and sensibility, overweight, were in fact, the Ideal. Plain and simple.
If you think we are any better or more sane just think of Kate Moss.
It's very much a cultural issue. And you are arrogant if you think not.
Be that as it may, within the dominate cultural model we have a wide swing. For example, I happen to like women with really defined curves. My friend Juan likes waifs. They are so thin you could tie a string to them and fly them at the beach.
Imprints.
Rubens, perhaps one of the greatest artists ever, loved to paint these women. He captured every nuance. It's beautiful.
But these days such a woman would not be so appreciated because of our culture.
And I too am affected by that.
My sole point is that there is personal determinism and also cultural determinism to some degree.
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It may end like like the Nature/Nurture agrument where in fact it is both. Truth may be paradoxical holding two strong ideas, both true, in tension that seem contradictory.
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