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Article: Body size, physical attractiveness, and body image among young adult women: relationships to sexual experience and sexual esteem.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
- Author:
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It has been well-documented that women are objectified more than men: Women's bodies are more often looked at, evaluated, and sexualized (see Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997, for review). Correspondingly, men place greater emphasis on a potential mate's physical attractiveness than do women (for reviews see Buss, 1994; Feingold, 1990; Jackson, 1992). Given the apparent links between women's physical appearance and sexual desirability to men, how is women's attractiveness related to their own sexuality?
Although links between women's sexuality and physical attractiveness and body image make sense conceptually and are supported by everyday observation (Daniluk, ...