Is the left one really an ancient statue? Not saying no women looked like that at the time but the proportions, style and pose sure seem very “modern coded”.
From looking around on Wikipedia I do think that most religions from a warmer climate had thick goddesses it just needed the right mixture of culture and artstyle to show it.
It probably was just luck that culture and artstyle aligned enough that a talented sculptor could create a figure that looks allmost modern. Like greece had the hyper realistic statues down before 200 AD, so it’s not a stretch to assume that other cultures could produce such a quality in their own style.
Oh, my comment didn’t mean to imply that the statue came from the future. I mean the goddesses did. No other piece of historical art I’ve seen has these proportions on a woman. My assumption is that women are evolving (or surgically altering themselves) to such an extreme hourglass ratio and will eventually travel back in time and be worshipped as goddesses, for their modern knowledge and incomprehensible technology as well as their dummy thicc hips and chest.
Clearly this makes far more logical sense than “the ideal female form (according to lonely artistic men) has always been unattainable and unrealistic, regardless of era and exposure to hentai.”
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.
Is the left one really an ancient statue? Not saying no women looked like that at the time but the proportions, style and pose sure seem very “modern coded”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara
Apsaras are very old and traditional and had sexy thick curves, that’s not a modern thing at all.
I’ll be in my bunk
Ah, ancient India. OK that fits now.
i was gonna say, there’s this indian temple from 1000 CE that is chock full of these statues.
Finally, a religion that makes sense.
Someone postet it in another comment already. It is really an ancient statue: https://collections.lacma.org/object/31379 Made in the year 200.
That thing must be covered in ancient cum.
So only like, 170 mothers ago
Not yours, then.
You may have convinced me that the statue is ancient, but in doing so you’ve increased my belief in time travel.
No, this was just a thing. India also has some thick goddesses. Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumi_(goddess)
From looking around on Wikipedia I do think that most religions from a warmer climate had thick goddesses it just needed the right mixture of culture and artstyle to show it.
It probably was just luck that culture and artstyle aligned enough that a talented sculptor could create a figure that looks allmost modern. Like greece had the hyper realistic statues down before 200 AD, so it’s not a stretch to assume that other cultures could produce such a quality in their own style.
Oh, my comment didn’t mean to imply that the statue came from the future. I mean the goddesses did. No other piece of historical art I’ve seen has these proportions on a woman. My assumption is that women are evolving (or surgically altering themselves) to such an extreme hourglass ratio and will eventually travel back in time and be worshipped as goddesses, for their modern knowledge and incomprehensible technology as well as their dummy thicc hips and chest.
Clearly this makes far more logical sense than “the ideal female form (according to lonely artistic men) has always been unattainable and unrealistic, regardless of era and exposure to hentai.”
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.
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.