2026-10-28 07:24 UTC
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@Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2026-10-28 07:32
Depends what is ancient and modern for you, but statues with those kind of proportions have existed for at least more than 1000 years on the Indian subcontinent.
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@ATPA9@feddit.org 2026-10-28 07:32
Someone postet it in another comment already. It is really an ancient statue: collections.lacma.org/object/31379 Made in the year 200.
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@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 21:25
I’m unconvinced by the whole argument that what is attractive is determined by the media rather than the other way around. IMO it’s more of a case of the media attracting a lot of people at varying levels of attractiveness and the most attractive having their usual advantage, hence there’s an unrealistic proportion of attractive people represented in the media (which then messes with our own metric because it skews what we think is common and rare beauty since we see media all the time). Statues were kinda like the media back then, at least in that someone taking the time to carve one might have been more picky with who it was modeled after. I’d be very surprised if humanity didn’t always have a similar range of attractiveness to what we have today, though with less obesity going back to the times when there wasn’t so much surplus food (and it wasn’t made very accessible to the general population when there was). I also suspect that the “older postures” before the “modern postures” were the result of control freaks gaining influence in schools and yelling at kids about their posture, and the “modern posture” is more of a case of people getting tired of that shit and ignoring them and going back to more natural postures.
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@Obviouslywrong@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 23:29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara Apsaras are very old and traditional and had sexy thick curves, that’s not a modern thing at all.
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@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-11-01 19:00
there’s really nothing about it that wouldn’t have been perfectly feasible for people throughout all history, and if it’s always been possible then it’s safe to assume there’s probably been a culture that’s even more into it than we are.