Body Acceptance, Radical And Risky

“Body acceptance is radical and risky. It runs against the cultural current by blowing three whistles on how we see and treat the body. First, it denounces Western society’s propagation of the “perfect” body—an illusory standard of ideal beauty popularized by media and marketing. Second, it debunks slanderous fallacies and conventional fantasies about our naked anatomy by refusing to see the body as a sexual indecency and by esteeming all body parts as elements of personal identity. Third, it turns up the volume for listening to the visual “body language “ of human physiology.”— David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections of on Body Acceptance