True, though the greek ideal of the perfect body seems less dangerous =pCheeze_Pavilion said:Same as bodybuilders and people with breast implants ;-Dcrypt-creature said:Perhaps, but to the eye it normally looks like an athletic person. True in some positions the muscles wouldn't flex quite like they have in the statues, but it looks believable.Cheeze_Pavilion said:Actually, it was the Greek physique that was unnatural--to the point that it would require surgery to remove bone to live up to it:Watcheroftrends said:To give you a comparison, look at men's beauty over the years. The Greek physique was that of a trim, flowing, and proportionate man. Then there were the 1900's greats like Eugen Sandow and George Hackenschmidt who were, in my opinion, the high point of physical development. Today, bodybuilders are terribly massive, steroid filled apes who couldn't so much as wipe their own asses if they got any more huge. In the same way, I believe female beauty has become just as skewed, and I think everyone should take a step back and revalue what characteristics make a person beautiful.
http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/greece/
It's a deception that isn't entirely harmful, unless people take a specific image to heart and twists their body to look that way instead of letting their body fill itself out naturally.
Or at least more reasonable for the typical person to achieve through natural means.