Body Image

Children Learn What They Live: the body image edition

July 26, 2011

I’ve written before about my own journey toward personal self-acceptance a couple of times. Once and Twice This post is about how I want to instill in my children the desire to love, respect, and take care of their bodies in a way I never did and I was younger. My girls and I watch [...]

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Porn, Body Image and Buff Women

June 18, 2011

I love bodies. I love both men’s and women’s bodies. I love my body. I have always loved Stoya’s body, hers especially. (And her amazingly pale skin, dark hair, pouty lips…. ) And, like many women, I look at all the bodies in the media, and I never see my own body. I often joke [...]

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“A funny thing happened on the way to the Rec Center”…

March 16, 2011

As a mom, I occasionally read the posts in the forums of my local mom’s club.  One struck me yesterday and I was moved to respond.  Here is the question: “Horrified by tween conversation–Warning TMI–what should I have done? I was walking in to the front door of the gym at the community center with [...]

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Real Women Have Real Bodies

January 12, 2011

I hate putting on a bathing suit. It’s irrational, to some extent, but very real. I am not alone. I don’t know very many women – over the age of 21 anyway – who like to be seen in their bathing suits. It’s scary. It’s the most surefire way to feel badly about yourself. It’s [...]

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Let’s Get Naked

December 16, 2010

I went out to dinner last weekend for a girlfriend’s birthday. The party was made up of about 10 women; a few women that I already knew and a few that I hadn’t yet met. At the end of the table where I was sitting, we spoke a lot about my field of study… shocker! [...]

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